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Qwen Max


Qwen Max is Alibaba logoAlibaba's language model with a 33K context window and up to 8K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $1.04 / 1M input and $4.16 / 1M output. Alibaba's highest-performance Qwen LLM, a large-scale MoE model excelling at complex multi-step reasoning tasks.
Spec
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen-max
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window33K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 1 year ago
Knowledge Cutoff

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities3/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen-max
$1.04$4.16$0.208
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen-max
$1.60$6.40N/A$0.800$3.20

Cost Calculator

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max262K$0.359$1.43Available
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen Max33K$1.04$4.16Current
Qwen VL Max131K$0.520$2.08Available
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable
Qwen3 Max ThinkingAvailable

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B128K$0.150$1.20
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B128K$0.530$2.66
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking131K$0.117$1.36
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct131K$0.400$1.60
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking131K$0.400$4.00
Qwen3 Coder PlusPlus1.0M$0.650$3.25
Qwen3 Coder FlashFlash1.0M$0.195$0.975
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B262K$0.150$0.600
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct262K$0.220$1.80

Model IDs