Qwen3 Max Preview
Alibaba
Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026
Qwen3 Max Preview is an Alibaba model. It was retired on 10 October 2026. Its last listed API price was $0.78 per million input tokens and $3.90 per million output tokens. Its context window is 262.1K tokens. It ranks #109 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1434, read 2 Nov 2026). Source: alibabacloud.com.
Qwen3 Max Preview (qwen3-max-preview) was a preview of Alibaba's Qwen3 Max model on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, with no published weights and a 262.1K-token context window. It was available via the API until 10 October 2026, the shutdown date in Alibaba's deprecation table, which names qwen3-max as the replacement. It was listed at $0.78 per million input tokens and $3.90 per million output tokens. 1434 Elo (rank 109)
Pricing & specs checkedSource: vendor documentation · checked Oct 29, 2026LMArena: 1434 Elo (rank 109) · source · retrieved Nov 2, 2026
Full Specifications
$0.78 / $3.90 per million tokens | |
|---|---|
| Identity | |
| Developer | Alibaba |
| Retired | 10 October 2026 |
| Status | Retired. Alibaba's Model Studio deprecation table lists qwen3-max-preview for shutdown on 10 October 2026, replaced by qwen3-max. |
| Licence | Proprietary |
| Self-hostable | No |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $1.560 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.780 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $3.900 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 262.1K tokens |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1434 (checked Nov 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 109 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 919 |