Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Qwen's Qwen3 Max Thinking offers impressive mathematical reasoning and a large 262K context window at a reasonable price, with tool use support, though its overall intelligence and coding scores are more modest — a good option for analytical tasks at competitive cost, with some regional accessibility considerations.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Intelligence
Technical
Content
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3-max-thinking
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | February 9, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 32,768 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.78 | $0.000780 |
| Output | $3.90 | $0.003900 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
