What the evidence says
- Developer
- Alibaba
- Released
- January 25, 2026
- Domains
- Language
- Tasks
- Language modeling/generation
- Access
- API access
- Weights
- Closed weights
Platform facts
OpenRouter's platform listing, retrieved July 22, 2026. Routed platform prices, not first-party provider prices.
- Input price
- $0.78 per 1M tokens
- Output price
- $3.90 per 1M tokens
- Context length
- 262,144 tokens
- Listed on OpenRouter
- February 9, 2026
Common questions
What is Qwen3-Max-Thinking?
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is a Alibaba model released January 25, 2026, according to Epoch AI's reviewed catalog record. The record classifies it under language.
How does Qwen3-Max-Thinking rank on LMArena?
No board Model Gauntlet mirrors currently lists this exact model revision under a reviewed identity, so no rating is reported here.
What does Qwen3-Max-Thinking cost?
OpenRouter lists it at $0.78 per million input tokens and $3.90 per million output tokens, retrieved July 22, 2026. Those are the platform's routed prices, not first-party provider prices.