Question 1

What is Qwen3 Max?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 Max is a model from Qwen, released on Sep 23, 2025. 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 delivers higher accuracy in math, coding, logic, and science tasks, follows complex instructions in Chinese and English more reliably, reduces hallucinations, and produces higher-quality responses for open-ended Q\u0026A, writing, and conversation. The model supports over 100 languages with stronger translation and commonsense reasoning, and is optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool calling, though it does not include a dedicated “thinking” mode.

Question 2

How much does Qwen3 Max cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.76 per 1M tokens on Novita, and output starts at $3.04 per 1M tokens on Novita, after gateway discounts. Averaged across 3 providers, it costs $0.87 per 1M input tokens and $4.15 per 1M output tokens.

Question 3

Which providers serve Qwen3 Max on Respan?

Accepted Answer

3 providers serve Qwen3 Max: Novita, OpenRouter, and EmpirioLabs.

Question 4

What is Qwen3 Max's context window?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 Max accepts up to 262K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use Qwen3 Max with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "qwen3-max". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is Qwen3 Max?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was Novita at 28 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 1.6 seconds on OpenRouter. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Question 7

Where does Qwen3 Max rank on the Respan Index?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 Max scores 18.0 out of 100 on the Respan Index v1.1, ranking #106 of 138 models. By category: Coding 5.5, Agents 6.8, Reasoning 12.0, Knowledge & language 48.4, and Human preference 47.1. The Respan Index combines independent and lab-reported benchmark results into one score, using benchmark data collected by llmmetric.com.

Question 8

How does Qwen3 Max score on benchmarks?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 Max has 12 published benchmark scores, including SWE-bench Verified 69.6%, Vending-Bench 2 71.57, and GPQA Diamond 72.6%. Each score links to where it was published; the data is collected by llmmetric.com.

Provider	Context	Input	Output
NovitaSave 10%`novita/qwen/qwen3-max`	262K	$0.76/M	$3.04/M
OpenRouter`openrouter/qwen/qwen3-max`	262K	$0.78/M	$3.90/M
EmpirioLabs`empiriolabs/qwen3-max`	256K	$1.08/M	$5.52/M

Qwen3 Max

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