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

> Qwen: Qwen3 Max: $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

Qwen · released 2025-09-23

 $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 |
| 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 | 1439.1 preview |
| --- | --- |

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...