Qwen Max is Alibaba's language model with a 31K context window and up to 8K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $1.60 / 1M input and $6.40 / 1M output. Alibaba's highest-performance Qwen LLM, a large-scale MoE model excelling at complex multi-step reasoning tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen-max
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window31K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 2 years ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date

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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen-max
$1.60$6.40$0.8$3.20
Qwen AI Platform
qwen_ai_platform/qwen-max
$1.60$6.40——
Qwencloud
qwencloud/qwen-max
$1.60$6.40——

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 Max1.0M$1.65$4.95Available
Qwen3.7 Max1.0M$1.25$3.75Available
Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K$1.27$7.61Deprecated
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$1.20$6.00Deprecated
Qwen3 Max262K$1.20$6.00Deprecated
Qwen3 Max Preview262K——Available
Qwen Max31K$1.60$6.40Current
Qwen VL Max131K——Available
Qwen3 Max Thinking————Available
Qwen2.5 Max————Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B—1.0M$2.00$6.00
Qwen Image 3—————
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASRFlash————
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR FiletransFlash————
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR StreamingFlash————
Qwen Audio 3 Flash RealtimeFlash——$0.230$0.930
Qwen Audio 3 Plus RealtimePlus——$0.800$6.40
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSPlus————
Qwen Audio 3.1 Plus RealtimePlus——$0.800$6.40
Qwen Image 3.0 ProPro————

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen-max
dashscope/qwen-max
qwen_ai_platform/qwen-max
qwen-max
qwen-max50
qwen/qwen-max
qwencloud/qwen-max