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Qwen3 MaxOPEN
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.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $1.56 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 8% of the 191 open-weight models tracked here
- 46 of 51 Alibaba models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Qwen3 Max, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
Models at this level cost $0.96 per 1M tokens (median of 22) — this one costs $1.56.
Cheaper and better on this index: GLM 5.3 Flash · Gemini 3.7 Flash · Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch) and 62 more
About this model
Qwen3 Max is an open-weight AI model by Alibaba. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked daily, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Qwen3 Max?
Qwen3 Max is an AI language model from Alibaba. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 24.5 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Qwen3 Max free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Qwen3 Max and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.78 per million input tokens and $3.9 per million output tokens.
What is Qwen3 Max good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 76.4%, MMLU-Pro 84.1%, Humanity's Last Exam 11.9%, Long Context Reasoning 48.3%, LiveCodeBench 76.7%, SciCode 38.3%, AIME 2025 80.7%, IFBench 44.1%, τ²-Bench 74.3%, Terminal-Bench Hard 20.5%. It is particularly used for mathematical reasoning.
Can I self-host Qwen3 Max?
Yes. Qwen3 Max has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.