Qwen3-Max
Released
Qwen3-Max is an AI model released by Qwen on Wednesday, Sep 24 2025, 13 days after Qwen3-Next. It is a 1T parameter model with a 256k token context window.
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API pricing
- InputWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
- $1.20
- OutputWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
- $6.00
- InputWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
- $2.40
- OutputWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
- $12.00
- InputWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
- $3.00
- OutputWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
- $15.00
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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.
Frequently asked questions
Qwen3-Max was released by Qwen on Wednesday, Sep 24 2025.