Qwen Max is Alibaba's language model with a 31K context window and up to 8K output tokens, 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 · 1 year 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
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 Max1.0M$1.65$4.95Available
Qwen3.7 Max1.0M$1.25$3.75Available
Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K$1.03$6.16Available
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen Max31K$1.60$6.40Current
Qwen VL Max131K$0.800$3.20Available
Qwen3 Max ThinkingAvailable
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B1.0M$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$0.450$4.50
Qwen Audio 3 Plus RealtimePlus$0.800$6.40
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSPlus
Qwen Image 3.0 ProPro
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen-max
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