Qwen Max API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Qwen Max was released on February 1, 2025. Pricing starts at $1.60 per million input tokens and $6.40 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 33K tokens. API access is available through Qwen.

Context Window

33K

tokens

Pricing

Input$1.60

Output$6.40

Cached$0.320

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output41 tok/s

TTFT1.15s

median latency

Capabilities

ToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare Qwen Max with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
QW Qwen	Qwen-Max	$1.600	$6.400	35.9	76.2	58.7	32,768	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-5.1 Chat	$1.250	$10.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-5.1-Codex	$1.250	$10.000	84.9	86.0	86.0	400,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-5 Codex	$1.250	$10.000	84.0	86.5	83.7	400,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-5 Chat	$1.250	$10.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-5	$1.250	$10.000	84.6	87.1	85.4	400,000	Try
G Google	Gemini 2.5 Pro	$1.250	$10.000	80.1	86.2	84.4	1,048,576	Try
G Google	Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05	$1.250	$10.000	—	—	—	1,048,576	Try
D Deepcogito	Cogito v2.1 671B	$1.250	$1.250	—	—	—	128,000	Try
M Sao10k	Llama 3 Euryale 70B v2.1	$1.480	$1.480	—	45.5	10.8	8,192	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct	$1.500	$2.000	—	—	—	4,095	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Qwen Max is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$1.600

Cheapest Input/M

$6.400

Cheapest Output/M

Alibaba

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
A Alibaba Best Price	$1.600	$6.400	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

16.3 (38th pct)

Coding

Math

MMLU Pro

76.2 (50th pct)

GPQA

58.7 (43th pct)

LiveCodeBench

35.9 (38th pct)

AIME

23.3 (38th pct)

Aider

21.8 (9th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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