Qwen: Qwen-Max
Analysis Summary
Qwen-Max is a text-only model from Alibaba's Qwen family, released February 2025, with tool use and function calling support. Its 32K context window is on the smaller side, and without any benchmark data, its reasoning, coding, or instruction-following quality cannot be assessed.
For businesses, the tool use and function calling capabilities suggest potential for structured API workflows, but the absence of verified performance data makes it a risk for production deployment. The small context window further limits its utility for long-document tasks.
At $1.04 input and $4.16 output per million tokens, pricing is relatively high for an unverified model. A -4 point regional penalty also applies. Teams should wait for benchmark data before considering Qwen-Max over established alternatives.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Qwen-Max has tool use and function calling but no benchmark data, limiting confidence in its reasoning or content quality for business deployment.
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Performance Profile
How Qwen: Qwen-Max compares
Its 33K-token context window is larger than 32% of the models we list. At $1.04 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 23% of comparable models.
About Qwen: Qwen-Max
Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among Qwen models, especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion..
Capabilities
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen-max
|
| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | February 1, 2025 |
| Context Length | 32,768 tokens |
| Max Completion | 8,192 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.04 | $0.001040 |
| Output | $4.16 | $0.004160 |
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Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen-Max
How much does Qwen: Qwen-Max cost?
Qwen: Qwen-Max costs $1.04 per million input tokens and $4.16 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen-Max?
Qwen: Qwen-Max has a context window of 32,768 tokens (33K).
What can Qwen: Qwen-Max do?
Qwen: Qwen-Max supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Qwen: Qwen-Max?
Qwen: Qwen-Max is developed by Qwen and was released on February 1, 2025.
