# Qwen3-Max-Preview

> Qwen3-Max-Preview is a proprietary language model from Alibaba (Qwen), released on 1 Jan 2025. It accepts text and generates text, with a 256K-token context window and up to 32K output tokens per response.

Source page: https://www.aimodel.directory/models/qwen3-max-preview
Last verified: 17 Oct 2026

## Specifications

- **Developer:** Alibaba (Qwen)
- **Release date:** 1 Jan 2025 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Status:** Generally available (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Weights:** Proprietary (API only) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Context window:** 256K (256,000 tokens) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Max output:** 32K tokens (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Knowledge cutoff:** Dec 2024 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Input:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Output:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Reasoning mode:** No (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)
- **Tool calling:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/iflowcn/models/qwen3-max-preview.toml)

## API pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|

## FAQ

### What is the context window of Qwen3-Max-Preview?

Qwen3-Max-Preview has a context window of 256,000 tokens (256K) and can generate up to 32,000 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.

### Is Qwen3-Max-Preview open source?

No. Qwen3-Max-Preview is a proprietary model; Alibaba (Qwen) has not released its weights.

### When was Qwen3-Max-Preview released?

Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3-Max-Preview on 1 Jan 2025, according to models.dev.

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