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Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking

Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. $0.78 per million input tokens, $3.90 per million output tokens. 262,144 token context window, maximum output of 65,536 tokens. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 tokens
Architecture
text->text
Tokenizer
Qwen
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

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

Input
$0.78
/M tokens
  • ≤32K$0.78
  • ≤128K$1.56
  • >128K$1.95
Output
$3.9
/M tokens
  • ≤32K$3.9
  • ≤128K$7.8
  • >128K$9.75
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Moderated
No
Default parameters
No
API

Quick start

Call this exact model ID through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API.

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

InputOutput

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

No

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

1 Provider

Live providers on OpenRouter

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OpenRouter

Alibaba

unknown
Context
262K
Maximum output
66K
Input
$0.780
Output
$3.90
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided
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