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# Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking: $0.780/M in, $3.90/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3 Max Thinking

Qwen · released 2026-02-09

 $1.56 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.780 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $3.90 /M |

**Past 32,000 tokens the price changes.** Input goes to $1.95/M (2.5×) and output to $9.75/M. The headline rate does not apply to a long-context workload.

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 66K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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...