Qwen-Max — Alibaba | Modeldex

Qwen-Max

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Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among [Qwen models](/qwen), especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion...

Updated 4 days agoStructured data from Modeldex catalog

Knowledge cutoff

Mar 31, 2025(1.1 years ago)

API release

Feb 1, 2025(1.2 years ago)

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

History

Qwen-Max became available via the Alibaba API on 2025-02-01.

Training & availability

Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2025-03-31 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Alibaba has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 32K tokens.
Input modalities: text.

Limitations

The knowledge cutoff is 12 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
The context window (32K tokens) is modest by 2026 standards — unsuitable for processing long documents in a single request.
Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.

Pricing

Input: $1.0400 per 1M tokens
Output: $4.1600 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen-max",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $1.04/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $4.16/1M

Input cost

$5.2

5.0M × $1.04/1M

Output cost

$8.32

2.0M × $4.16/1M

Total / month

$13.52

$162.24 / year

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Mid-tier pricing

Standard pricing band. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.

Quality percentile: —
Effective price: $3.38/1M
Pricing breakdown: $1.04/1M in
$4.16/1M out

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