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Qwen3-Max

Alibaba's largest Qwen3 model, an MoE with over 1T parameters, offered as an instruct variant with a separate thinking mode.

Context
262K tokens
Max output
66K
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Hosted API price

List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD
Input
$1.20 /1M
Output
$6.00 /1M
Cheapest
$0.85 / $3.38 via Novita
Hosted by
Novita Alibaba Cloud 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

Transparency and funding

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Every provider serving Qwen3-Max, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Every provider serving Qwen3-Max, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider Input /1M Output /1M Cost at 10M in + 2M out Link
Novita logo Novita Cheapest $0.85 $3.38 $15.26 Visit website
Alibaba Cloud logo Alibaba Cloud Creator $1.20 $6.00 $24.00 Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Qwen3-Max by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Qwen3-Max per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model Blended /1M Input /1M Output /1M Context Cutoff vs Qwen3-Max
Cohere Command A+ Cohere $1.20 $0.80 $3.20 128K −6%
Z.AI GLM-5.1 Z.AI $1.2377 $0.825 $3.301 205K −3%
Google Cloud Gemini 3.6 Flash Google Cloud $1.25 $0.75 $3.75 1M Mar 2026 −2%
Google Cloud Gemini 3.7 Flash Google Cloud $1.25 $0.75 $3.75 1M Mar 2026 −2%
Google Cloud Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Cloud $1.25 $0.75 $3.75 1M Mar 2026 −2%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-Max This model Alibaba Cloud $1.2717 $0.85 $3.38 262K
OpenAI GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI $1.375 $0.75 $4.50 400K Aug 2025 +8%
Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI $1.375 $0.90 $3.75 262K +8%
xAI Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) xAI $1.4583 $1.25 $2.50 1M +15%
xAI Grok 4.20 (Reasoning) xAI $1.4583 $1.25 $2.50 1M +15%
xAI Grok 4.3 xAI $1.4583 $1.25 $2.50 1M +15%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

Capabilities

What Qwen3-Max accepts and can do, as published by Alibaba Cloud.

  • Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
  • Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
  • Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
  • Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
  • Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
  • Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.

Common questions

What is Qwen3-Max good for?

Hosted assistant and agent work, at the heavy end of the Qwen3 lineup: a mixture of experts with over 1T parameters.

When is Qwen3-Max not a good fit?

Self-hosting, since the weights are closed, and image, video or audio input, none of which it takes. It sits near the top of Alibaba's price range.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3-Max?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.85 / $3.38 per 1M tokens via Novita; the creator's list price is $1.20 / $6.00.

Can I self-host Qwen3-Max?

No. Alibaba Cloud does not publish the weights; Qwen3-Max is available only through hosted APIs.

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