Qwen3 Max API Pricing
Qwen3 Max by Alibaba costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens.
Price verified from Alibaba's pricing page.
Rates and limits
- Input / 1M
- $1.20
- Output / 1M
- $6.00
- Cached input / 1M
- Not listed
- Batch discount
- None
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Released
- September 2025
Pricing note: International (Singapore) deployment, tiered by input tokens per request: 0-32K shown; 32K-128K $2.40 in / $12 out; 128K-256K $3 in / $15 out. Chinese-mainland and Global deployments are cheaper.
What Qwen3 Max costs per month
Token volume split 3:1 between input and output, with no prompt caching.
| Tokens per month | Input / output | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1M | 750K / 250K | $2.40 |
| 10M | 7.5M / 2.5M | $24.00 |
| 100M | 75M / 25M | $240.00 |
Where to run Qwen3 Max
Prices above are Alibaba's direct rates. Cloud platforms can charge differently; the cloud platform view compares them.
- Alibaba DashScope (Model Studio)Direct API
- OpenRouterCloud / platform
Qwen3 Max pricing FAQ
How much does Qwen3 Max cost per million tokens?
Qwen3 Max costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens, as listed on Alibaba's pricing page on September 30, 2026.
How much does Qwen3 Max cost for 10 million tokens a month?
About $24.00 a month, assuming 7.5 million input and 2.5 million output tokens with no prompt caching.
What is the context window of Qwen3 Max?
Qwen3 Max accepts up to 262,144 tokens of context.
Does Qwen3 Max support prompt caching?
No cached-input price is listed for Qwen3 Max, so repeated prompt prefixes are billed at the standard input rate.
Is there a batch discount for Qwen3 Max?
No batch API price is listed for Qwen3 Max.
Where can I use the Qwen3 Max API?
Qwen3 Max is available through Alibaba DashScope (Model Studio) and OpenRouter.
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