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Why use Qwen3-Max-Thinking on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Qwen3-Max-Thinking with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.20/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Input / 1M
$1.20
Output / 1M
$6.00
Cache
read $0.24
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install openaiAuth
export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],Model ID
alibaba/qwen3-max-thinkingRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking", not the LLMReference slug "qwen3-max-thinking".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.20 |
| Output tokens | $6.00 |
Capabilities
Reasoning
About Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the Qwen team's reasoning model in the Qwen3-Max line, served through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio under the API name qwen3-max-2026-01-23 and in Qwen Chat; no weights have been released.
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Model Specs
Released2026-01-25