How much does Qwen3 Max cost?

Qwen3 Max costs $0.78 per million input tokens and $3.90 per million output tokens. For a typical conversation (~2,000 tokens), that's approximately $0.005 per message.

What benchmarks has Qwen3 Max been tested on?

Qwen3 Max has been evaluated on 8 benchmarks. Top scores: MATH level 5: 97.1, Lech Mazur Writing: 87.1, OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 73.3.

How does Qwen3 Max compare to o3 Pro?

Qwen3 Max has an average score of 60.8 while o3 Pro scores 60.8. o3 Pro slightly outperforms Qwen3 Max overall. Qwen3 Max costs $0.78/1M input vs o3 Pro at $20.00/1M input. See full comparison →

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Qwen3 Max

Name: Qwen3 Max
Price: 0.78 USD
Author: Alibaba Qwen

by Alibaba Qwen · Released Sep 2025

Open Source

60.8

avg score

Rank #66

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Better than 72% of all models

Context

262K tokens (~131 books)

Input $/1M

$0.78

Output $/1M

$3.90

Type

text

License

Open Source

Benchmarks

8 tested

Data updated today

About

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...

Tested on 8 benchmarks with 58.3% average. Top scores: MATH level 5 (97.1%), Lech Mazur Writing (87.1%), OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (73.3%).

Looking for similar performance at lower cost?
gpt-oss-20b (free) scores 61.0 (100% as good) at $0.00/1M input · 100% cheaper

Capabilities

math

85.2

#12 globally

knowledge

49.4

#105 globally

Benchmark Scores

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Tested on 8 benchmarks · Ranked across 2 categories

Score Distribution (all 233 models)

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MATH level 5

Competition-level math from AMC, AIME, and olympiad problems. Level 5 is the hardest tier, requiring creative problem-solving.

97.1—

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

Mock AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Exam) problems from OTIS. Tests mathematical competition performance.

73.3—

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Lech Mazur Writing

Writing quality evaluation by Lech Mazur. Tests prose quality, coherence, and stylistic ability.

87.1—

SimpleQA Verified

Simple factual questions with verified correct answers. Tests accuracy of basic knowledge retrieval. Low scores indicate hallucination.

67.5—

Fiction.LiveBench

LiveBench fiction analysis. Tests literary comprehension and creative text understanding.

66.7—

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Model Family · Alibaba Qwen Qwen 3

Qwen3 14BApr 2025

$0.06/M in41Kctx

Qwen3 235B A22BApr 2025

56.4+56.4

$0.46/M in(+0.40)131Kctx(+90K)8 benchmarks

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Jul 2025

48.5-7.9

$0.07/M in(-0.38)262Kctx(+131K)20 benchmarks

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Jul 2025

55.9+7.4

$0.15/M in(+0.08)131Kctx(-131K)24 benchmarks

Qwen3 30B A3BApr 2025

$0.09/M in(-0.06)41Kctx(-90K)1 benchmark

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Jul 2025

55.3+55.3

$0.09/M in262Kctx(+221K)7 benchmarks

Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507Aug 2025

66.2+10.9

$0.08/M in(-0.01)131Kctx(-131K)6 benchmarks

Qwen3 32BApr 2025

58.2-8.0

$0.08/M in41Kctx(-90K)8 benchmarks

Qwen3 4B (free)Apr 2025

$0.00/M in(-0.08)41Kctx

Qwen3 8BApr 2025

56.5+56.5

$0.05/M in(+0.05)41Kctx6 benchmarks

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructJul 2025

$0.07/M in(+0.02)160Kctx(+119K)

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BJul 2025

$0.22/M in(+0.15)262Kctx(+102K)

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)Jul 2025

$0.00/M in(-0.22)262Kctx(0K)3 benchmarks

Qwen3 Coder FlashSep 2025

$0.20/M in(+0.20)1.0Mctx(+738K)

Qwen3 Coder NextFeb 2026

$0.12/M in(-0.08)262Kctx(-738K)3 benchmarks

Qwen3 Coder PlusSep 2025

$0.65/M in(+0.53)1.0Mctx(+738K)

Qwen3 MaxSep 2025

58.3+58.3

$0.78/M in(+0.13)262Kctx(-738K)8 benchmarks

Qwen3 Max ThinkingFeb 2026

$0.78/M in262Kctx3 benchmarks

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructSep 2025

54.4+54.4

$0.09/M in(-0.69)262Kctx18 benchmarks

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)Sep 2025

$0.00/M in(-0.09)262Kctx3 benchmarks

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingSep 2025

61.6+61.6

$0.10/M in(+0.10)131Kctx(-131K)20 benchmarks

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructSep 2025

$0.20/M in(+0.10)262Kctx(+131K)1 benchmark

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingSep 2025

$0.26/M in(+0.06)131Kctx(-131K)1 benchmark

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructOct 2025

$0.13/M in(-0.13)131Kctx

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingOct 2025

$0.13/M in131Kctx

Qwen3 VL 32B InstructOct 2025

$0.10/M in(-0.03)131Kctx

Qwen3 VL 8B InstructOct 2025

$0.08/M in(-0.02)131Kctx

Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingOct 2025

$0.12/M in(+0.04)131Kctx

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Context262K tokens (~131 books)
ReleasedSep 2025
LicenseOpen Source
StatusActive
Cost / Message~$0.005

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Alibaba Qwen$0.78

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Qwen3 Max is an open-source text AI model by Alibaba Qwen, released in September 2025. It has an average benchmark score of 60.8. Context window: 262K tokens.

Benchmarks

MATH level 5 Lech Mazur Writing OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 SimpleQA Verified Fiction.LiveBench

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