Qwen Max API Pricing
Qwen Max by Alibaba costs $1.60 per million input tokens and $6.40 per million output tokens.
Price verified from Alibaba's pricing page.
Rates and limits
- Input / 1M
- $1.60
- Output / 1M
- $6.40
- Cached input / 1M
- Not listed
- Batch discount
- 50% off
- Context window
- 33K tokens
- Max output
- 8K tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- September 2024
- Released
- January 2025
Pricing note: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, International (Singapore) deployment. Chinese-mainland and Global deployments are priced differently.
What Qwen Max costs per month
Token volume split 3:1 between input and output, with no prompt caching.
| Tokens per month | Input / output | Standard | Batch API |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M | 750K / 250K | $2.80 | $1.40 |
| 10M | 7.5M / 2.5M | $28.00 | $14.00 |
| 100M | 75M / 25M | $280.00 | $140.00 |
Where to run Qwen Max
Prices above are Alibaba's direct rates. Cloud platforms can charge differently; the cloud platform view compares them.
- Alibaba DashScope (Model Studio)Direct API
- OpenRouterCloud / platform
Benchmarks reported by Alibaba
- MMLU
- 87.3%
- HumanEval
- 87%
- GPQA
- 60.1%
Qwen Max pricing FAQ
How much does Qwen Max cost per million tokens?
Qwen Max costs $1.60 per million input tokens and $6.40 per million output tokens, as listed on Alibaba's pricing page on September 30, 2026.
How much does Qwen Max cost for 10 million tokens a month?
About $28.00 a month, assuming 7.5 million input and 2.5 million output tokens with no prompt caching, or $14.00 through the batch API.
What is the context window of Qwen Max?
Qwen Max accepts up to 32,768 tokens of context and returns up to 8,192 output tokens per request.
Does Qwen Max support prompt caching?
No cached-input price is listed for Qwen Max, so repeated prompt prefixes are billed at the standard input rate.
Is there a batch discount for Qwen Max?
Yes. Requests sent through the batch API cost 50% less: $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens.
Where can I use the Qwen Max API?
Qwen Max is available through Alibaba DashScope (Model Studio) and OpenRouter.
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