{"slug": "qwen3-max-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "title": "Qwen3 Max deprecated, retires 2026-10-09", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "QW✕ Retired\n\n# Qwen3 Max\n\nAlibaba (Qwen) · qwen3-max\n\nReleased2025-09-05\n\nRetires2026-10-092d ago\n\nQwen3text262k context66k max out$0.359 / $1.43 per 1M\n\nalso matches: \n\n`qwen3-max`` qwen-max``alibaba/qwen-max`` alibaba/qwen3-max`\n[provider announcement →](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models)\n\nDoes your code call Qwen3 Max?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status` in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-max-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/alibaba/alibaba/qwen3-max", "published_at": "2026-10-11 06:00:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-11 07:53:25.710506+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen3 Max", "Alibaba Cloud Model Studio", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-max-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-max-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-max-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-max-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.jsonld"}}