Flagship Qwen model for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows
Qwen Max by alibaba is offered by 8 providers on this page. Its official list price is $1.60 per 1M input tokens and $6.40 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Alibaba (China) at $0.345 / $1.38 per 1M, about 4.6× below the list price.
The context window is 32,768 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 32,000 to 131,072, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use. 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.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.35 | $1.38 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Ofox | Gateway | $0.35 | $1.38 | $0.069 | — | 32,768 | 8,192 | |
| Ofox | Gateway | $0.35 | $1.38 | $0.069 | — | 32,000 ⚠ | 8,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $1.60 | $6.39 | $0.80 | — | 32,000 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $1.60 | $6.40 | — | — | 32,768 | 8,192 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $1.60 | $6.40 | $0.32 | — | 32,768 | 8,192 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $1.60 | $6.40 | — | — | 32,768 | 8,192 | |
| LLM Gateway | Gateway | $1.60 | $6.40 | — | — | 32,768 | 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.
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.