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Qwen3 Max deprecated, retires 2026-10-09

Alibaba's Qwen3 Max model, released 2025-09-05, has been deprecated and is scheduled to retire on 2026-10-09, according to a provider announcement from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. The model, which supports a 262k context window and up to 66k output tokens at $0.359 per 1M input tokens and $1.43 per 1M output tokens, is flagged by llmstatus.ai as being on a retirement clock for developers whose code calls it.

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Qwen3 Max deprecated, retires 2026-10-09
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QW✕ Retired

Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen3-max

Released2025-09-05

Retires2026-10-092d ago

Qwen3text262k context66k max out$0.359 / $1.43 per 1M

also matches:

`qwen3-max`` qwen-max``alibaba/qwen-max`` alibaba/qwen3-max`
[provider announcement →](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models)

Does your code call Qwen3 Max?

$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash

Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.

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