Qwen3 Max Thinking
Alibaba · Released Feb 2026
Qwen3 Max Thinking is Alibaba's extended reasoning model with a 262K token context window, designed to perform deliberative reasoning across complex tasks.
- Strengths
- Excels at multi-step reasoning, problem decomposition, and working through ambiguous or complex queries that benefit from explicit thinking processes.
- Best for
- Tasks requiring step-by-step logical reasoning, verification of solutions, and detailed analysis where intermediate reasoning is valuable.
- Limitations
- The 262K context window is substantially smaller than mid-tier Qwen3.6 and Qwen3.5 Plus models which support 1 million tokens, limiting use with very long documents or high-volume context.
Input / 1M
$0.78
Output / 1M
$3.90
Cached input / 1M
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Context window
262K
Price history
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.78 | $3.90 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |