Flagship Qwen3 model for coding agents, complex reasoning, and tool use
Qwen3 Max by alibaba is offered by 25 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 21 of them. Its official list price is $1.20 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Ofox at $0.36 / $1.43 per 1M, about 5.9× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 free ($0) channel and 2 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 15.6 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.627 per 1M, that is roughly 25 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 65 tokens per second, with 2.17s to the first token.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 131,072 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use and structured output. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-04.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Coding Plan qwen3-max-2026-01-23 | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 262,144 | 32,768 | ||
| iFlow | Gateway | Free | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan (China) 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 | |
| Ofox | Gateway | $0.36 | $1.43 | $0.072 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.36 | $1.43 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.36 | $1.43 | $0.072 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.36 tiered >32K: $0.57 · >128K: $1.00 | $1.43 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| AIHubMix | Gateway | $0.45 tiered >32K: $0.90 · >128K: $1.35 | $2.70 | $0.09 | $0.56 | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.85 | $3.38 | $0.60 | $3.75 | 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.
3 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Coding Plan, iFlow, Alibaba Coding Plan (China)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
| 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.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.