Qwen3 Max Thinking pricing.

prices as of · 9 providers · 9 prices

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3 Max Thinking holds 262k tokens of context and has a reasoning mode. Whether its weights are open is not stated by our sources.

Qwen3 Max Thinking costs $0.78 in and $3.90 out per million tokens from Alibaba Cloud, and no provider goes below it with a reason we can point at.

tool callingreasoningstructured output262k contextreleased 9 Feb 2026

Alibaba Cloud list price

$6.24/M tokens

$0.78 in · $3.90 out

read · 76% above the market median

Cheapest price we can explain

$6.24

Nobody goes below Alibaba Cloud's price for a reason we can point at, so the list price is the one to beat. Every other price is below.

What it costs for your work

pages a month

Alibaba Cloud list price

$0.702a month

cheapest we can explain

none

difference

no list price

A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.

Every provider selling Qwen3 Max Thinking

Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Alibaba Cloud's price.

The maker's list price

1 price

What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.

  • Alibaba Cloud

    The price Alibaba Cloud charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.

    $0.78 / $3.90in / out per M

    1.00×of list price

Same price as the maker

8 prices

The same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.

Frequently asked

Who sells Qwen3 Max Thinking cheapest?
No provider sells Qwen3 Max Thinking below Alibaba Cloud's price with a reason we can point at. 9 providers sell it at or above list, and those prices are all on this page.
Is Qwen3 Max Thinking open weights?
No. Alibaba Cloud keeps the weights, so every price on this page is Alibaba Cloud's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
How much context does Qwen3 Max Thinking hold?
262,144 tokens in one call, which is about 262k, and it can call your own functions.
How does Qwen3 Max Thinking compare with the rest of the market?
At $6.24 per million tokens, Alibaba Cloud's price is 76% above the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.
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