# Qwen3-Max

Qwen3-Max is an AI model released by Qwen on Sep 24 2025. It has 1T parameters and a 256k context window.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Model | Qwen3-Max |
| Developer | Qwen |
| Release date | Wednesday, Sep 24 2025 |
| Licensing | Proprietary |
| Parameters | 1T |
| Context window | 256k |

## API pricing

All rates in USD per 1,000,000 tokens, pay-as-you-go.

| Tier | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Up to 32K input tokens | $1.20 | $6.00 |
| Over 32K and up to 128K | $2.40 | $12.00 |
| Over 128K and up to 256K | $3.00 | $15.00 |

Deployment: International (Singapore).
Output prices include reasoning tokens.
Verified August 18, 2026 against the first-party source: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing

## About Qwen3-Max

Qwen3-Max, released September 24, 2025 at Alibaba's Apsara Conference, was the first Qwen model to cross a trillion parameters — and it stayed closed, available only through the Alibaba Cloud API with no weights published, continuing the pattern Qwen2.5-Max had set that January. For a lab whose reputation had been built almost entirely on open releases, keeping the largest models proprietary was a deliberate repositioning rather than an oversight.

It was trained on roughly 36 trillion tokens and carried a 256K-token context window. The split it cemented — a proprietary Max tier at the top, open weights underneath — became the shape of Qwen's lineup from then on, with Qwen3.5-Plus, Qwen3.6-Plus and the Qwen3.7 pair all following the same commercial pattern while the numbered open releases continued in parallel. A reasoning variant, Qwen3-Max-Thinking, was added later.

## Questions and answers

### When was Qwen3-Max released?

Qwen3-Max was released by Qwen on Wednesday, Sep 24 2025.

### Who made Qwen3-Max?

Qwen3-Max was built by Qwen. Alibaba's AI lab, building the Qwen family. The most prolific publisher of open-weight models of any major lab, alongside a proprietary Max and Plus tier sold through Alibaba Cloud.

### How much does Qwen3-Max cost?

Qwen3-Max costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens through the Qwen API. Those are the rates for the “Up to 32K input tokens” tier; 2 other pricing tiers are published for this model. Output prices include reasoning tokens. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified against Qwen's published pricing on August 18, 2026.

### What is the context window of Qwen3-Max?

Qwen3-Max has a context window of 256k. That is the maximum amount of input plus output the model can hold in a single request.

### How many parameters does Qwen3-Max have?

Qwen3-Max is reported at 1T parameters.

### Is Qwen3-Max open source?

No. Qwen3-Max is a proprietary model. The weights are not published — it is available only through the provider's own API, apps, or partner platforms.

### What came before and after Qwen3-Max?

Qwen's previous tracked release was Qwen3-Next on Sep 11 2025, 13 days earlier. It was followed by Qwen3-Coder-Next on Feb 3 2026.


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