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QVQ Max

alibaba·alibaba/qvq-max·GA·Closed·qvq series
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks

QVQ Max by alibaba is offered by 3 providers on this page. Its official list price is $1.20 per 1M input tokens and $4.80 per 1M output tokens.

The context window is 131,072 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 128,000 to 131,072, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning and tool use. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-04.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Official price·Alibaba
$1.20 / $4.80
Blended $2.10 · Cache read —
Lowest paid·Alibaba (China)First-party
$1.15 / $4.59
Blended $2.01 · 1× spread
Context
131,072
Output limit
8,192
Knowledge cutoff
2024-04
Released / updated
2025-03-25 / 2025-03-28
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImage

Available at 3 providers3 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
Alibaba (China)OfficialFirst-party$1.15$4.59——131,0728,192
AlibabaOfficialFirst-party$1.20$4.80——131,0728,192
NanoGPTGateway$1.20$4.80$0.60—128,000 ⚠8,192

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Reasoning control

Upstream provides no control info

2 / 3 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Your usage cost

1NanoGPT$408.00
2Alibaba (China) · Official$458.80
3Alibaba · Official$480.00
Switch to NanoGPT to save $50.80/mo (11%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$4.80$02026-08-052026-09-242026-08-05 · Input list $1.202026-08-06 · Input list $1.202026-08-07 · Input list $1.202026-08-08 · Input list $1.202026-08-09 · Input list $1.202026-08-10 · Input list $1.202026-08-11 · Input list $1.202026-08-12 · Input list $1.202026-08-13 · Input list $1.202026-09-03 · Input list $1.152026-09-24 · Input list $1.202026-08-05 · Output list $4.802026-08-06 · Output list $4.802026-08-07 · Output list $4.802026-08-08 · Output list $4.802026-08-09 · Output list $4.802026-08-10 · Output list $4.802026-08-11 · Output list $4.802026-08-12 · Output list $4.802026-08-13 · Output list $4.802026-09-03 · Output list $4.592026-09-24 · Output list $4.802026-08-05 · Min blended $2.102026-08-06 · Min blended $2.102026-08-07 · Min blended $2.102026-08-08 · Min blended $2.102026-08-09 · Min blended $2.102026-08-10 · Min blended $2.102026-08-11 · Min blended $2.102026-08-12 · Min blended $2.102026-08-13 · Min blended $2.102026-09-03 · Min blended $2.012026-09-24 · Min blended $2.01

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Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · Alibaba official docs ↗