Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
QWEN Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1120Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context262,144Tokens
API Cost / 1M$4.68Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it delivers major gains in factual accuracy, complex reasoning, instruction following, alignment with human preferences, and agentic behavior.
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.78 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$3.90 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026
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