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Qwen 3 Max Thinking

Compared with the snapshot as of September 23, 2025, the Qwen-3 series Max model in this release achieves an effective integration of thinking and non-thinking modes, resulting in a comprehensive and substantial improvement in the model’s overall performance. In thinking mode,…

TEXTREASONINGREASONINGTOOL-USE
256K
CONTEXT WINDOW
65.5K
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
$1.20
INPUT PRICE / 1M TOKENS
$6
OUTPUT PRICE / 1M TOKENS
QUICKSTART

Call it in one request.

OpenAI-compatible: change the base URL, and the setup is complete.

curl https://enterprise.blackbox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLACKBOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "blackboxai/alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }],
    "stream": true
  }'
SPECIFICATIONS

The full spec sheet.

Context, pricing, modalities, routing, and deployment: everything Qwen 3 Max Thinking supports, in one table.

MODEL ID
blackboxai/alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking
DEVELOPED BY
Alibaba
MODEL TYPE
Text
RELEASED
Jan 23, 2026
CONTEXT WINDOW
256K
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
65.5K
INPUT MODALITIES
text
OUTPUT MODALITIES
text
INPUT PRICE
$1.20 / 1M tokens
OUTPUT PRICE
$6 / 1M tokens
INPUT PRICE (>200K)
$2.40 / 1M tokens
CACHE READ
$0.24 / 1M tokens
REASONING
Supported
DATA RETENTION
Standard retention
DEDICATED DEPLOYMENT
Not available (closed-weight model)
SUPPORTED PARAMETERS
max_tokenstemperaturestoptoolstool_choicereasoninginclude_reasoning