Ways to buy 1
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Qwen (Alibaba) APIThe lab's own API · cached $0.156 | $0.78 | $3.9 | $0.78 / $3.9List price | $0.156 | List price |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $156.00 direct.
Helicone$156.00+0%
Kong AI Gateway$156.00+0%
LiteLLM$156.00+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$156.00+0%
Cloudflare AI Gateway$163.80+5%
Requesty$163.80+5%
Eden AI$164.58+5.5%
OpenRouter$164.58+5.5%
No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
Related models
| In / out per 1M | Cheapest route | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $4 | $12 | $4 / $12 | $6 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.15 / $0.47 | $0.23 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
| Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $2 | $6 | $2 / $6 | $3 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
| Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.15 / $0.47 | $0.23 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
 Muse Spark 1.3Meta · 1M | $1.25 | $4.25 | $1.25 / $4.25 | $2 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
 Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle · 1MCheapest: $0.75 on Google Gemini API (flex) | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.75 / $3.75 | $1.5 | 1M | $0.75 on Google Gemini API (flex) | · |
| Muse Spark 1.1 Meta · 1M | $1.25 | $4.25 | $1.25 / $4.25 | $2 | 1M | Lab list price | · |
 Kimi K3Moonshot AI · 1M | $0.885 | $10.5 | $0.885 / $10.5 | $3.3 | 1M | on Sail Research (fp4) | · |
About Qwen3 Max
Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version.
Takes text in and returns text. First listed Sep 11, 2025. Up to 66K output tokens. Blended price $1.56 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id qwen3-max.
Price history
List price since Sep 11, 2025, from Internet Archive snapshots of the OpenRouter catalog, then daily reads.
| Seen | Model | Old price | New price | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2026 | Qwen3 MaxInput $1.2 to $0.78, Output $6 to $3.9, Cached input $0.24 to $0.156 | Input $1.2Output $6Cached input $0.24 | Input $0.78Output $3.9Cached input $0.156 | -35% |
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Questions
How much does Qwen3 Max cost?
$0.78 per million input tokens and $3.9 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.156.
What is the context window of Qwen3 Max?
262K tokens, with up to 66K tokens of output.
Has Qwen3 Max's price changed?
Yes. The output price went from $6 to $3.9, first seen Mar 17, 2026.
Sources: OpenRouter's public model catalog and each provider's own pricing page, read every morning at 05:00 UTC; gateway fees re-read every Monday. List prices: your contract may differ. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.