Qwen · Balanced
Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23
Qwen3 Max is Alibaba's flagship Qwen 3 reasoning model with native tool use (web search, web extractor, code interpreter) and a 256K context window.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.20
- Output
- $6.00
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K
- Max output
- 32.8K
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| Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23QwenThis model | Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Added | Jan 26, 2026 | Apr 20, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 256KBest | 245.76K |
| Max output | 32.77K | 65.54KBest |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.20 | $1.04Best |
| Output | $6.00Best | $6.24 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
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Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3-max-2026-01-23",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3-max-2026-01-23",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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