# qwen3-max — shutdown October 10, 2026

For qwen3-max, provider is Alibaba Cloud Model Studio; shutdown / retirement date is October 10, 2026, recorded from its source on 2026-09-15.

- **Provider:** Alibaba Cloud Model Studio _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** qwen3-max _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** October 10, 2026 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_

## What the source says

> Qwen3 Series Mainline Models：qwen3.6-max-preview、qwen3-max-preview、qwen3-max、qwen3-vl-flash、qwen3-coder-plus

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Shutdown / retirement date

> Model Studio has decided to uniformly postpone the retirement of the following legacy models to October 10, 2026.

## Source

- https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/notice/model_studio_notice_on_the_postponed_retirement_of_selected_legacy_models_7d0

Last verified: 2026-09-15. Review by: 2026-10-15.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).