Qwen3 Max
Qwen released 2025-09-23
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 |
| Cached input | $0.156/M |
| Cache write | $0.975/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
| LMArena Elo | 1439.1preview |
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Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.
Capability
| Context window | 262K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 66K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-06-30 |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |
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...