Alibaba Qwen

Qwen3 Max

262K ctxText Tools

Released Sep 24, 2025 · 92B tokens this week · 3 providers

Overview

Alibaba's largest Qwen, a trillion-parameter-class mixture-of-experts served through hosted APIs. Excellent multilingual coverage, particularly across Asian languages, and competitive on agentic benchmarks. The top of the Qwen range for general quality.

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Providers

Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic

PROVIDERMAX OUTOUTPUT /MQUANT
Together AICheapest
262K33K$1.20$6.00195ms9299.40%Full
Fireworks AI
262K33K$1.30$6.48600ms10599.50%Full
Novita AI
262K33K$1.34$6.72700ms8498.60%Full

Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.

Price comparison

Blended $ per 1M tokens

Qwen3 Max$4.80
GPT-5.2$10.94

Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.

Call it

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go

curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3-max",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
    ]
  }'