Qwen: Qwen-Max

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryVisionTool use

Qwen: Qwen-Max is a text model for general chat, analysis, and production use. It combines steady general-purpose performance with a 33K tokens context window and a balanced-cost profile. Use it for general chat, analysis, and production workloads when quality, speed, and cost matters. It is a practical choice for teams that need reliable output, flexible deployment, and room to scale.

Input

$1.04/1M

Output

$4.16/1M

Cached

$0.21/1M

Batch

$0.80/1M

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Technical specifications

Qwen-Max at a glance.

Memory

32,768

tokens

Max reply

8,192

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

qwen

Released

Jan 2025

Training cutoff

Sep 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Qwen-Max

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Multimodal pipelines mixing text + images.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Qwen-Max costs roughly $244 per month. Input is $1.04 /1M tokens and output is $4.16 /1M tokens.
Qwen-Max has a 32,768-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 6,144 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Qwen-Max supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Qwen-Max was released in January 2025, with training data cut off around September 2024.
Models in a similar class include Qwen VL Max, Qwen3.5 397B A17B, Qwen3.6 Plus. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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