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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 flagship large-scale MoE language model in the Qwen series, delivering top-tier performance on complex multi-step reasoning and instruction-following 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
Elo Rating
1153
#64

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
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 9.23 MaxAvailable
Qwen3.5 Max258KAvailable
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen-Max33K$1.04$4.16Current
Qwen VL Max131K$0.520$2.08Available
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B128K$0.060$0.090
Qwen 7 28 FlashFlash998K
Qwen 4 28 PlusPlus129K
Qwen 3 32B128K
Qwen3.5-FlashFlash1.0M$0.065$0.260
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Plus1.0M$0.260$1.56
Qwen 1 25 PlusPlus129K
Qwen3.6 PlusPlus1.0M$0.325$1.95
Qwen3.6 Plus PreviewPlus1.0M
Qwen 3.5 FlashFlash1.0M$0.100$0.400

Model IDs