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Qwen3 Max
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3-max·GA·Closed·qwen series
Flagship Qwen3 model for coding agents, complex reasoning, and tool use
At a glance
Official price$0.861 / $3.44 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.36 / $1.43
Ofox Gateway · 5.9× spread
3 more $0 channels
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 131,072–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2025-09-23 / 2025-09-23
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence24.5
Value39
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed58 tok/s
TTFT2.44 s
Value formulaIQ 24.5 ÷ min blended $0.627 = 39
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
PreviewIQ 19.4 · 59 tok/s
defaultIQ 24.5 · 58 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 20 providers16 with public prices · 1 free · 2 subscription-covered
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iFlow | Gateway | Free | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan (China) qwen3-max-2026-01-23 | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 262,144 | 32,768 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan qwen3-max-2026-01-23 | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 262,144 | 32,768 | ||
| Ofox | Gateway | $0.36 | $1.43 | $0.072 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.359 | $1.43 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.359 | $1.43 | $0.072 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.845 | $3.38 | $0.60 | $3.75 | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.861 | $3.44 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.78 tiered >32K: $1.56 · >128K: $1.95 | $3.90 | $0.156 | $0.975 | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.78 | $3.90 | $0.156 | $0.975 | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Ofox$108.94
2Merge Gateway$109.04
3OrcaRouter$143.50
4OpenRouter$276.12
5Kilo Gateway$276.12
6DevPass (LLM Gateway)$308.60
7Alibaba (China) · Official$344.25
3 more channels offer $0 (iFlow, Alibaba Coding Plan (China), Alibaba Coding Plan); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to Ofox to save $235.31/mo (68%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark3 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Coding Index | — | 26.4 | index | Source ↗ |
| SciCode | — | 38.3 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | — | 20.5 | success rate | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Related models
Qwen3.5 0.8Bsame series$0.06 / $0.12Qwen3.5 4Bsame series$0.10 / $0.20Qwen3.8 27B TEEsame series$0.40 / $3.00Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.144 / $0.574Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.216 / $0.861Qwen3 Coder Nextcheaper alternative$0.50 / $1.20Llama-3.1-8B-Instructcheaper alternative$0.15 / $0.45
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended