Qwen Max
by Alibaba (Qwen)Chat
Flagship Qwen model for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows
- Context
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Released
- 2024-04-03
- Weights
- Closed
alibaba/qwen-max · also seen as qwen-max-2025-01-25, bailian/qwen-max, qwen/qwen-max
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-04-03
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 131,072 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 8,192
- Providers
- 3 + 6 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.345–$2.080 in · $1.38–$8.32 out per 1M tokens · across all 3 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-08-05
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-04
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.345 in / $1.38 out per 1M tokens at Alibaba (China) on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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