MODEL PROOF
Qwen3 Max
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Base context tier shown; inspect the complete context ladder below.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 78.6 points · 65% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens
Gemma 4 31B is a further stored option with these losses: 66K → 16K max output
Lifecycle: retirement date · 09 Oct 2026
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,412.4 ± 6.47 · 8,969 votes
- Context window
- 262.14K
- Maximum output
- 65.54K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.780 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $3.90 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
- Context tiers
- Tiered by context
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Alibaba: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.780/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $3.90/M |
| Cached input | $0.156/M |
| Cache write | $0.975/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
The headline rate does not apply to a long-context workload.
Complete context ladder · 2 tiers
| More than 32,000 tokens | $1.56/M in (2×) $7.80/M out $0.312/M cached input $1.95/M cache write |
|---|---|
| More than 128,000 tokens | $1.95/M in (2.5×) $9.75/M out $0.390/M cached input $2.44/M cache write |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibabaalibaba Endpoint terms
| $0.780 | $3.90 | undeclared | 99.79% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1412.4default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- ASCII art #51 1139
- SVG #82 1010
- Game development #87 1107
- 3D #89 1082
- Code categories #90 1115
- Data visualisation #90 1107
- Websites #92 1125
- UI components #94 1085
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 262K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 65K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-06-30 |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Retirement scheduled for 2026-10-09. Do not start new work on it.
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version. It...
Questions this page answers
What does Qwen3 Max cost?
$0.780/M in, $3.90/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Qwen3 Max have an independent quality score?
Qwen3 Max has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Qwen3 Max?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3 Max?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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