Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3 Max sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #88 of 523 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 delivers a strong agentic index and solid all-round benchmark performance with a 262K context window and full tool use support, positioning it as a capable mid-tier option, though UK businesses should note the provider's limited Western support infrastructure.
Assessed April 23, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
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Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3-max
|
| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | September 23, 2025 |
| 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
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