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Qwen Max API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 16, 2026 at 08:05 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$0.640
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output34 tok/s
TTFT1.13s
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
$1.600
$6.400
35.9
76.2
58.7
32,768
Try
$1.250
$10.000
84.9
86.0
86.0
400,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
84.0
86.5
83.7
400,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
128,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
84.6
87.1
85.4
400,000
Try
$1.250
$10.000
80.1
86.2
84.4
1,048,576
Try
$1.250
$10.000
1,048,576
Try
$1.250
$1.250
128,000
Try
$1.480
$1.480
45.5
10.8
8,192
Try
$1.500
$6.000
200,000
Try
$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.

2
Providers
$1.600
Cheapest Input/M
$6.400
Cheapest Output/M
OpenRouter
Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Best Price
$1.600
$6.400
-
A
Alibaba
Best Price
$1.600
$6.400
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
16.3 (39th pct)
Coding
-
Math
-
MMLU Pro
76.2 (52th pct)
GPQA
58.7 (47th pct)
LiveCodeBench
35.9 (41th pct)
AIME
23.3 (41th pct)
Aider
21.8 (9th pct)
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen Max costs $0.001600 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.006400 per 1,000 output tokens.
Qwen Max is available from 2 provider(s). OpenRouter offers the best price.
We compare Qwen Max with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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