it's hard to say what is the max level in Skyrim for a myriad of reasons. First of all, this figure has changed throughout the years after the game's initial level cap of 81. With the legendary skills feature, the player could then level up to 256. However, some argue that the player can now level past this with enough dedication up to level 65535.  At this level, the player reaches the end of the game’s leveling hexadecimal code, reaching the critical 'FFFF' value that will act as a hard stop to any future leveling attempts. Forcing the game past this level will simply result in a crash.