Qwen3-Max
Released
2025-04-28
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 2d ago
DeprecatedProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use
Qwen3-Max is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Qwen3.8-Max before starting new work.
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Specifications
- Family
- Qwen3
- Released
- 2025-04-28
- Lifecycle
- Retired October 10, 2026
- Context
- 256K
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-12
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
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Pricing
No tracked provider pricing is available yet.
Links
This model is deprecated. Alibaba recommends switching to Qwen3.8-Max.
About
Qwen3-Max is a model in Alibaba's Qwen3 series, a mixture-of-experts model with over 1 trillion parameters pretrained on 36 trillion tokens. It is served through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio under the API name qwen3-max and in Qwen Chat; no weights have been released.
Providers
No active provider routes are tracked for this model.
Deprecated provider routes(3)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | Deprecated | qwen/qwen3-max |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Deprecated | alibaba/qwen3-max |
| Novita AI | Deprecated | qwen3-max |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
SWE-bench VerifiedRank 23 of 100
Benchmark scores(4)
Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78.8 | SWE-bench VerifiedObserved 2026-04-24 | — | ||
| 76.8 | τ-benchObserved 2026-04-24 | — | ||
| 71.9 | Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL v3)Observed 2026-04-12 | — | ||
| 41.2 | MultiChallengeObserved 2026-04-26 | — |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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