Using Qwen3-Max on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Qwen3 · Alibaba

Deprecated

OpenRouter exposes Qwen3-Max through model ID qwen/qwen3-max. Use the setup steps, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call qwen/qwen3-max — see the documentation for request format.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About Qwen3-Max

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.

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Model Specs

Released2025-04-28
Context256K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-12

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Provider

OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA