Qwen3 Max
QwenReleased Sep 23, 2025
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...
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 33K tokens
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Tokenizer
- Qwen3
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jun 30, 2025
- Released
- Sep 23, 2025
- Reasoning
- optional
Pricing
Per 1M tokens. The provider price and our flat 3% fee are separate columns — what you pay is their sum.
| Per 1M tokens | Provider | + 3% fee | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.780 | $0.023 | $0.803 |
| Output | $3.90 | $0.117 | $4.02 |
| Cache read | $0.156 | $0.0047 | $0.161 |
| Cache write | $0.975 | $0.029 | $1.00 |
Benchmarks
Design Arena
| Category | Elo | Win rate | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3Dmodels | 1150 | 43.5% | #62 |
| ASCII artmodels | 1175 | 47.2% | #32 |
| Codemodels | 1159 | 44% | #66 |
| Data vizmodels | 1149 | 41.8% | #64 |
| Game devmodels | 1160 | 43.9% | #62 |
| SVGmodels | 1069 | 37.3% | #60 |
| UI componentsmodels | 1132 | 40.1% | #67 |
| Websitesmodels | 1161 | 44.4% | #66 |
Head-to-head preference voting. How we filter and rank
Supported parameters
- logprobs
- max_tokens
- presence_penalty
- response_format
- seed
- structured_outputs
- temperature
- tool_choice
- tools
- top_logprobs
- top_p
Call it
OpenAI-compatible: point your SDK at api.openkey.ai/v1 and use model qwen/qwen3-max.
curl https://api.openkey.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENKEY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3-max",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.openkey.ai/v1",
api_key=os.environ["OPENKEY_API_KEY"],
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3-max",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.openkey.ai/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENKEY_API_KEY,
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "qwen/qwen3-max",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);Questions
- How much does Qwen3 Max cost via API?
- Through OpenKey, Qwen3 Max costs $0.803 per 1M input tokens and $4.02 per 1M output tokens. That is the provider price ($0.780 / $3.90) plus a flat 3% fee — nothing else.
- What is Qwen3 Max's context window?
- Qwen3 Max accepts up to 262K tokens of context and returns up to 33K tokens per request.
- Is Qwen3 Max OpenAI-compatible?
- Yes. Send requests to OpenKey's /v1/chat/completions endpoint with model "qwen/qwen3-max" using any OpenAI SDK — only the base URL and API key change.
- What inputs does Qwen3 Max support?
- Qwen3 Max accepts text input and produces text output. Its knowledge cutoff is Jun 30, 2025.
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