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Qwen3 Max Thinking

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Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling m

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Qwen3 Max Thinking

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `qwen/qwen3-max-thinking`.

  • openrouter · qwen/qwen3-max-thinking Docs

OpenRouter id: qwen/qwen3-max-thinking

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 21.3 index

Notes

Qwen3 Max Thinking is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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How much Qwen3 Max Thinking is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

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Intelligence score
21.3
0125M250M19 Sept: 9.9M tokens, 2.2K requests20 Sept: 24M tokens, 3.7K requests21 Sept: 60.9M tokens, 4.3K requests22 Sept: 27.3M tokens, 3.7K requests23 Sept: 128M tokens, 5K requests24 Sept: 118M tokens, 13.7K requests25 Sept: 243M tokens, 16.7K requests26 Sept: 52M tokens, 8K requests27 Sept: 11.6M tokens, 2.1K requests28 Sept: 33M tokens, 3.3K requests29 Sept: 25.5M tokens, 3.3K requests30 Sept: 82.3M tokens, 5.1K requests1 Oct: 62M tokens, 4.3K requests2 Oct: 65.8M tokens, 3.9K requests3 Oct: 61.5M tokens, 3.4K requests4 Oct: 20.8M tokens, 2.9K requests5 Oct: 62.6M tokens, 5.2K requests6 Oct: 64.1M tokens, 11.4K requests7 Oct: 32.8M tokens, 4.2K requests8 Oct: 23.4M tokens, 3.3K requests9 Oct: 11.3M tokens, 3.2K requests19 Sept3 Oct9 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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