Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #86 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.780 input and $3.90 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3 Max Thinking offers solid reasoning and a strong agentic index of 50.5 with tool use support, but intelligence and coding scores are mid-tier and pricing at $0.78/$3.90 is moderate for the capability level.
Assessed May 5, 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..
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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 |
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