Qwen3-Max (2026-01-23)
DeprecatedA Qwen model with a 256K-token context window and tool calling. On the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API since January 23, 2026, now deprecated.
Access details: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API
A pinned version. Requests to this ID always get the same model.
qwen3-max-2026-01-23Capabilities & limits
- Context window
- 256K
- Maximum output
- 64K
- Image input
- Unsupported
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Structured output
- Supported
Pricing
USD / 1M tokens- Input
- $1.20
- Output
- $6.00
Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Qwen's pricing page.
Full rate card 6 rates
All prices in USD.
Input tokens
$1.20 per 1M tokens- input 0 to 32K tokens per request
Output tokens
$6.00 per 1M tokens- input 0 to 32K tokens per request
- non-thinking and thinking modes
Input tokens
$2.40 per 1M tokens- input 32K to 128K tokens per request
Output tokens
$12.00 per 1M tokens- input 32K to 128K tokens per request
- non-thinking and thinking modes
Input tokens
$3.00 per 1M tokens- input 128K to 256K tokens per request
Output tokens
$15.00 per 1M tokens- input 128K to 256K tokens per request
- non-thinking and thinking modes
USD, International deployment scope (Singapore region) on the international pricing page. Standard prices; the page notes limited-time promotions are excluded. Context-cache and explicit-cache rates are described on a separate page and were not captured; where the page flags a 50% batch discount it is noted here. Rates for other regions (China, Germany, US, Japan, Hong Kong) are not captured.
Price history
Input $1.20 per million tokens
Output $6.00 per million tokens
Technical details
- Input modalities
- Text
- Output modalities
- Text
From Qwen
Official announcement ↗How they describe it
our latest flagship reasoning model
Release & lifecycle
- First available
- Jan 23, 2026
- deprecated
- As of Oct 1, 2026