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.

QW✕ Retired Qwen3 Max 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. Get alerted before it retires → https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up