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Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23

Added Jan 26, 2026

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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Limits
	Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23QwenThis model	Qwen3.8 MaxQwenRemove
Provider	Qwen	Qwen
Discovery tier	Balanced	Frontier
Added	Jan 26, 2026	Aug 3, 2026
Context window	256K	991KBest
Max output	32.77K	65.54KBest
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input	$1.20Best	$2.00
Output	$6.00	$6.00Best
Cache read	—	$0.25
Cache write	—	$2.50
Performance
Request success (24h)	—	98.7%
Capabilities
Tools	No	Yes
Vision	No	Yes
Structured output	No	Yes
PDF input	No	Yes
Video input	No	Yes
Reasoning effort	—	—

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

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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.

Read the quickstart

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)

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