Is Alibaba Qwen Qwen3-Max deprecated?
Yes. Qwen3-Max is deprecated and Alibaba Qwen shuts it down on 2026-10-10 — in 19 days.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what Qwen3-Max takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Alibaba Qwen's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
Specifications
- Input price
- $1.20 / M tokens
- Output price
- $6.00 / M tokens
- Price band
- Standard
- Context window
- 262.1K tokens
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- not published
- Model maker
- Alibaba Qwen
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
Lifecycle
- Released unknown
- Deprecated not announced Alibaba Qwen has not published the date this happened
- Retired in 19 days
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Alibaba Qwen's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
What to use instead of Qwen3-Max
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Qwen3.8-Max Derived
Same provider, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$2.00 in · $6.00 out / M tokens 1M context
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Qwen3.7-Max Derived
Same provider, same tier (frontier), close in price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$2.50 in · $7.50 out / M tokens 1M context
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Qwen-Max Derived
Same provider, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding and agents.
$1.60 in · $6.40 out / M tokens
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Qwen3.8 Max Derived
Alternative from DeepInfra, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$1.65 in · $4.951 out / M tokens 256K context
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Qwen3.7-Max Derived
Alternative from Together AI, same tier (frontier), similar price; shares chat, coding, agents and long-context.
$1.25 in · $3.75 out / M tokens 1M context
Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- alibabacloud.com https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing
- openrouter.ai https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
- alibabacloud.com https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-depreciation
- platform.qianwenai.com https://platform.qianwenai.com/docs/changelog/model-deprecations/mainline-models
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- Is Qwen3-Max deprecated?
- Yes. Qwen3-Max is deprecated and Alibaba Qwen shuts it down on 2026-10-10 — in 19 days.
- When does Qwen3-Max shut down?
- Alibaba Qwen has announced 2026-10-10 as the shutdown date for Qwen3-Max.
- What does Qwen3-Max cost?
- $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens, as last verified on 2026-09-10.
- What can I use instead of Qwen3-Max?
- Active alternatives include Alibaba Qwen Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba Qwen Qwen3.7-Max, Alibaba Qwen Qwen-Max.