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Qwen: Qwen3 Max

Source description (English)

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...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 tokens
Architecture
text->text
Tokenizer
Qwen3
Knowledge cutoff
2025-06-30
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.78
per 1M tokens
  • ≤32K$0.78
  • ≤128K$1.56
  • >128K$1.95
Output
$3.9
per 1M tokens
  • ≤32K$3.9
  • ≤128K$7.8
  • >128K$9.75
Cache read
$0.156
per 1M tokens
  • ≤32K$0.156
  • ≤128K$0.312
  • >128K$0.39
Cache write
$0.975
per 1M tokens
  • ≤32K$0.975
  • ≤128K$1.95
  • >128K$2.4375
API

Model configuration

Default parameters

temperature
1
top_p
1

Reasoning

Reasoning required
No
Default parameters
No
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen/qwen3-max","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

No

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltylogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 7, 2026

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

Alibaba

Not provided
Context
262K
Maximum output
66K
Input
$0.78
Output
$3.9
Cache read
$0.156
Cache write
$0.975
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