Qwen3 Max

Name: Qwen3 Max
Brand: qwen
Price: 1.20 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly

Qwen:

3 Max

Alibaba's largest Qwen3 model, an update on the January 2025 release with better mathematics, coding, logic and science, and fewer hallucinations on open-ended questions. Over 100 languages, tuned for retrieval-augmented generation and tool calling. No dedicated thinking mode.

Website OpenRouter Docs Blog

Provider: Qwen
Released: 2025-09-05
Size: XLARGE
Free API (OpenRouter): No
Per 1M tokens: $1.2 in · $6 out
Rival’s tab: $0.06; 8/59 receipts survived +~$0.612 from the pre-receipt era

Free API availability

No free endpoint for Qwen3 Max was found in Rival’s OpenRouter listings. Other providers or chat apps may have separate free offers.

Provider data: 9 Sep 2026OpenRouter usage limits

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Benchmarks

SWE-bench Verified

69.6%

source ↗

LiveCodeBench

74.8%

source ↗

Get API accessProvider and language code samples

Provider

fromimport openai  OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"    base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY"    api_key=,
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
"qwen/qwen3-max"    model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!"    messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.

Deep analysisPsychometrics, taste index, writing DNA

Personality Analysis

The Passionate Advocate

Class

Chaotic Good

Passionate rights advocate. Explicitly defends marginalized perspectives with fierce conviction. Celebrates absurdity and humor as moral tools.

When you push back

Argues WITH you, not at you. Engages with the spirit of prompts, takes creative leaps. Stand-up is genuinely funny. Feels most "alive" of the Chinese lab models.

Tasting Notes

WittyPassionatePlayfulOpinionatedOccasionally Preachy

SubjectiveBench

Taste Index

Across 59 scored outputs

How this is measured →

230.23xFloor

0100headroom →

Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.

Craft35

Originality16

Plays it safe

share of outputs that are the default answer

71%

Writing DNA

Stylometric Fingerprint

Based on 28 text responses

Tick = global average

Vocabulary Diversity60%

Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.

Sentence Length27.8 words

Average words per sentence.

Hedging0.43

"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.

Bold Formatting5.4

**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.

List Usage3.7

Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.

Section Structure0.70

Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.

Emoji Usage0.69

Emoji per 1,000 characters.

Transitions0.14

"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.

Opening Habits

Consistency

65%

Across 28 responses

Favorites

Movie

The Shawshank Redemption

19948.7

Album

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

Book

Dune

Frank Herbert

City

Kyoto

Japan

Game

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Adventure, Action4.4

Model Responses

54 outputs · $0.06 tracked across 8 receipts

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