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Qwen: Qwen3 Max API Pricing
Qwen: Qwen3 Max costs $0.780 per 1M input tokens and $3.90 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.156). Context window: 262K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.780
Output / 1M tokens
$3.90
Context window
262K
Max output
66K
What would Qwen: Qwen3 Max cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $21.84 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $70.20 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $152.10 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $39.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version. It...
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