Qwen3 Max
legacyAlibaba · Frontier
Alibaba's previous flagship. Received a 50% price cut in November 2025 as China's AI price war intensified.
- Strengths
- Capable previous Qwen flagship with long-context, multilingual strengths.
- Best for
- Budget multilingual and long-context tasks.
- Limitations
- Superseded by Qwen 3.7 Max.
Input / 1M
$0.36
Output / 1M
$1.43
Cached input / 1M
—
Context window
256K
Where it sits
4th-cheapest frontier model
by blended $/Mtok among 24 listed frontier models
83% below the frontier median
blended $/Mtok across 24 frontier models
Output costs 4× input
$0.36 in / $1.43 out per 1M
Down 58% since launch (Sep 2025)
blended price vs launch
Computed live from current prices and this model's history — not hand-written, so it stays accurate as prices move.
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Blended price change (3:1 I/O mix)
- 30d
- decreased 22.0%
- 90d
- decreased 22.0%
- 1y
- decreased 58.3%
- Since launch
- decreased 58.3%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun 2026 | $0.36 | $1.43 | — | Further cut to $0.359/$1.434 (Chinese-mainland base ≤32K tier); date approximate — bracketed [2026-01-16, 2026-06-01] by Wayback captures, undocumented elsewhere | alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing |
| 14 Nov 2025 | $0.46 | $1.84 | — | 50% price cut in China's AI price war | scmp.com |
| 23 Sep 2025 | $0.86 | $3.44 | — | DashScope launch pricing | alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing |