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Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.

Current version

Qwen3-Max

Entry cost

Free tier, Model Studio pay-as-you-go

Changes / 30d

2

Capabilities

  • Web search
  • Image and video generation
  • Deep research
  • Translation
  • Open-weight siblings

Pricing

  • Chat

    Free

  • Model Studio API

    pay per token

    Free

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Qwen3-Max

    Alibaba

    disclosed

  • Qwen3-VL

    Alibaba

    disclosed

Context window

262K tokens, 1M with extension

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • Open weights (Apache 2.0)
  • Model Studio
  • Hugging Face releases

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

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Change history

  • capability

    Deep research mode opened to all users

    Web search, Image generationWeb search, Image generation, Deep research

    source
  • model

    Qwen3-Max became the default model in chat

    Qwen3-235BQwen3-Max

    source