Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking

qwen/qwen3-max-thinking

Created Feb 9, 2026262,144 context

Starting at $1.20/M input tokensStarting at $6/M output tokens

Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it delivers major gains in factual accuracy, complex reasoning, instruction following, alignment with human preferences, and agentic behavior.

Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking

qwen/qwen3-max-thinking

Created Feb 9, 2026262,144 context

Starting at $1.20/M input tokensStarting at $6/M output tokens

Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it delivers major gains in factual accuracy, complex reasoning, instruction following, alignment with human preferences, and agentic behavior.

Sample code and API for Qwen3 Max Thinking

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