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Alibaba QwenMediumUltra

Qwen3 Max

Alibaba's Qwen3 Max served through the OpenRouter aggregator - an updated release built on the Qwen3 series with major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage. Text-only with a 256K-token context, billed at OpenRouter's actual usage cost.

1,449/7,246credits
input / output ยท per 1M tokens
256K-token context window with up to 64K output tokens
Strong instruction following and multilingual support
OpenAI-compatible API (chat completions) via /llm/openrouter/v1
Prompt caching with discounted cache reads
Billed at OpenRouter's actual usage.cost - listed rates are estimates

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Model Specifications

Context Window
262K
tokens
Max Output
66K
tokens
Training Cutoff
Not published
Compatible SDK
OpenAI

Capabilities

Vision
Function Calling
Streaming
JSON Mode
System Prompt

Token Pricing (per 1M tokens)

Token TypeCreditsUSD Equivalent
Input Tokens1,449$0.97
Output Tokens7,246$4.83
Cached Tokens289.848$0.19

* 1,500 credits โ‰ˆ $1 (actual charges may vary based on usage)

Quick Start

curl -X POST "https://api.core.today/llm/openrouter/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cdt_your_api_key" \
  -d '{
  "model": "qwen/qwen3-max",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Summarize the attached report in 5 bullets."
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 1024
}'

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
modelstringYes-Model ID in vendor/model form, e.g. "qwen/qwen3-max".
messagesarrayYes-Chat messages in OpenAI format (system/user/assistant roles).
temperaturenumberNo0.7Sampling temperature (0-2).
max_tokensintegerNo2048Maximum completion tokens.
streambooleanNofalseStream the response as server-sent events.

Examples

Chat completion

OpenAI-compatible chat completion request via OpenRouter

curl -X POST "https://api.core.today/llm/openrouter/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cdt_your_api_key" \
  -d '{
  "model": "qwen/qwen3-max",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Summarize the attached report in 5 bullets."
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 1024
}'

Tips & Best Practices

1Works with the OpenAI SDK - set base_url to https://ai.api.core.today/llm/openrouter/v1
2Charged at OpenRouter's usage.cost x 1,858 credits/USD - the listed rates are estimates and may lag OpenRouter price changes
3Text-only and non-thinking - it does not expose a reasoning parameter; pick qwen/qwen3.8-max if you need vision input or explicit reasoning mode

Use Cases

Multilingual chat and translation-heavy workflows
Instruction-following tasks with structured output
Knowledge-intensive Q&A and long-document analysis