qwen/qwen3-max-thinkingQwen3-Max-Thinking is Alibaba’s proprietary AI model, released Jan 25, 2026. It costs $0.78/M input and $3.90/M output tokens, and handles a 262K-token context window.
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning.
Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Qwen3-Max-Thinking lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
Frontier of human expert knowledge
Scientific research coding
Tool-agent-user reliability
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning.
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is an AI model developed by Alibaba, part of the Qwen family, released Jan 25, 2026.
Qwen3-Max-Thinking's list price from Alibaba is $0.78 per million input tokens and $3.90 per million output tokens.
Qwen3-Max-Thinking supports a context window of up to 262K tokens.
On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, Qwen3-Max-Thinking scores 86.1% on GPQA Diamond, 26.2% on Humanity's Last Exam, 43.1% on SciCode.
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is a proprietary model (API access), available through its provider's API rather than as a downloadable open-weight model.
Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Jul 30, 2026.