Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking

qwen/qwen3-max-thinking

Released Feb 9, 2026262,144 context

Starting at $0.78/M input tokensStarting at $3.90/M output tokens

Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it delivers major gains in factual accuracy, complex reasoning, instruction following, alignment with human preferences, and agentic behavior.

Providers for Qwen3 Max Thinking

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Effective Pricing for Qwen3 Max Thinking

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Apps using Qwen3 Max Thinking

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Recent activity on Qwen3 Max Thinking

Total usage per day on OpenRouter

Prompt

67.8M

Completion

4.75M

Reasoning

2.87M

Prompt tokens measure input size. Reasoning tokens show internal thinking before a response. Completion tokens reflect total output length.

Uptime stats for Qwen3 Max Thinking

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Sample code and API for Qwen3 Max Thinking

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Using third-party SDKs

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