Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight family, with a coder model in nearly every size.
Qwen is Alibaba's model family and the largest open-weight line there is — dozens of sizes from a few billion parameters up to the Max models, most of them published so you can run them yourself. For vibe coders the draw is the Qwen Coder models: strong at code for the price, cheap to call through a provider, and small enough at the low end to run on your own machine. The flagship Max models take text, images and video and go up to a million tokens of context.
At a glance — Qwen3 Max Thinking
- Cost
- $0.78 in · $3.90 out per 1M tokensMid-range
- Memory
- 262K tokens — about 400 pages
- Reads
- Text
- Can do
- Use tools (agents)
- Structured output
- Thinking mode
- Reliability
- 99.96% uptime, last 24h
- Released
- Feb 9, 2026
Advanced details
- API model ID
qwen/qwen3-max-thinking- Max output
- 66K tokens
- Max input
- 258K tokens
- Prompts over 32K
- $1.56 in · $7.80 out per 1M
- Tokenizer
- Qwen
Providers
The same model, hosted by different companies. OpenRouter picks one per request and falls back to the next if it fails.
| Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cached /1M | Max output | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | $0.78 | $3.90 | — | 66K | 99.96% |
Supported parameters
- frequency_penalty
- include_reasoning
- logprobs
- max_tokens
- presence_penalty
- reasoning
- response_format
- seed
- stop
- structured_outputs
- temperature
- tool_choice
- tools
- top_k
- top_logprobs
- top_p
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Key info
- Pricing
- Open source
- Category
- Models
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Made by
- Alibaba
- Weights
- Open, most sizes
- Good for
- Cheap coding models, and running one yourself