Model profile
Alibaba
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Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking

Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking is a budget-priced text-first model from Alibaba with heavy runtime profile, large context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research / agent workflows.

Best for: Long-context research / Agent workflowsHeavy latencyLarge contextBudget pricing
Intelligence
39.9

Benchmark blend

Coding
30.5

Dev workflow signal

Context
262K Tokens

Large

Input Price
$1.20

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
54

Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking currently reads as a budget text-first option with large context and a heavy runtime profile.

Overall profile
Use-case specific
Best for
Long-context research / Agent workflows
Latency tier
Heavy
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
OpenRouterArtificial Analysis

Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
39.9
40

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Limited
Speed
35 tok/s
44

TTFT 1.73s

Situational
Context
262K Tokens
88

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Above average
Price
$1.20
86

$6.00 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Use-case specificCoding score 31Math score N/A

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...

Identity

Alibaba text-first profile

Positioning

Long-context research / Agent workflows with large context and heavy runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths
  • Large context headroom supports repo-wide prompts and long research sessions.

Tradeoffs
  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Latency profile is better for deliberate runs than rapid back-and-forth chat.

  • Current metadata points to a text-first profile rather than a broad multimodal one.

Best fit
  • Long-context summarization, repo analysis, and policy or document review.

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Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

General intelligence

Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.

Intelligence Index
39.9
GPQA
86.1%
HLE
26.2%
Coding

Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.

Coding Index
30.5
SciCode
43.1%
Agent / tool use

Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.

IFBench
70.7%
TAU2
83.6%
TerminalBench Hard
24.2%
LCR
66.0%

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
262K Tokens
Vision
Text-first
Modalities
text
Tokenizer
Qwen
Max Completion
32768
Moderation
No
Supported Parameters
include_reasoningmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningresponse_formatseedstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_p
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$1.20
Output
per 1M output tokens
$6.00
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
$2.40

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.