Qwen VL Max is Alibaba's language model with a 131K context window and up to 8K output tokens, starting at $0.8 / 1M input and $3.20 / 1M output. Alibaba's top-tier visual language model delivering optimal performance on complex multimodal understanding tasks with 7500-token context.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen-vl-max
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageText
Output ModalitiesText
Release Date · 2 years ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input2/5
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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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qwen-vl-max
$0.8$3.20$0.4$1.60

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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 VL Max131K$0.800$3.20Current
Qwen Max31K$1.60$6.40Available
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-vl-max
qwen-vl-max
qwen-vl-max-2024-08-09
qwen-vl-max-2024-10-30
qwen/qwen-vl-max