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Qwen3 Max Pricing
Qwen · qwen3-max
Input / 1M tokens
$0.780
Output / 1M tokens
$3.90
Context window
262,144 tokens
≈ 350 pages of text
Max output
65,536 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0025
1,000 requests / month$2.50/mo10,000 requests / month$24.96/mo100,000 requests / month$249.60/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Qwen3 Max preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jun 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.
What it excels at
Strong multilingual reasoning (especially Chinese/English) and competitive coding benchmarks at open-weight pricing.
The business tradeoff
Cache-write pricing is unusually high relative to input cost — workloads that rely heavily on prompt caching should benchmark actual savings.
Cheaper from Qwen
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jul 28, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.