Qwen Max: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen Max is a text model by Alibaba. 11 providers serve it, from $1.38 to $6.40 /1M; the lowest price is at Alibaba.
Lowest price$1.38/1Mat Alibaba
Maker's price$1.38/1MAlibaba
Providers11
Context33KMax output 8K
How Qwen Max compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.38 /1M against a median of $1.10; 56% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 33K-token context window is larger than 6% of them (median 262K), about 50 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #90 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 11 providers serve it; 78% of comparable models have fewer.
Qwen Max prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WaveSpeedAI | — | $0.07/run | — | — |
| WaveSpeedAI | — | $0.07/run | — | — |
 Fal | — | $0.075/img | — | — |
| Fal | — | $0.075/img | — | — |
 AlibabaOfficial | $0.345/1M | $1.38/1M | — | — |
 Ofox | $0.35/1M | $1.38/1M | $0.069/1M | 32K |
 AIHubMix | $0.38/1M | $1.52/1M | — | — |
| AlibabaOfficial | $1.60/1M | From$6.40/1M | — | — |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $1.60/1M | From$6.40/1M | — | — |
 APIYI | $1.60/1M | $6.40/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $1.60/1M | $6.40/1M | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $1.60/1M | $6.40/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $1.60/1M | From$6.40/1M | $1.60/1M | 33K |
- AlibabaOfficial$1.38
- Ofox$1.38
- AIHubMix$1.52
- APIYI$6.40
- LaoZhang API$6.40
- CrazyRouter$6.40
- AlibabaOfficialFrom$6.40
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$6.40
- RequestyFrom$6.40
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 26, 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 33K≈ 50 pages of text
- Max output
- 8K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling
- Released
- Jan 25, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Arena score
- 1282Text
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $3/1M | 1.05M | 1585 | 30 |
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Alibaba, at $1.38 /1M. 11 providers serve Qwen Max; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen Max reads up to 33K tokens per request and writes up to 8K.
We have not found Qwen Max's weights published by its maker.
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