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Qwen-VL Max

CTX131K
48Quality
Vision · Tools
TextImageInput$0.80/M
TextOutput$3.20/M

Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks

PaidProprietary298/1044
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Qwen-VL Max

Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks

qwen-vl-max
Type
Text
Quality
48 · Top 52% on the LMArena Vision
Context window
131,072 tokens
Max output
8,192 tokens
Input price
$0.80 / 1M tokens
Output price
$3.20 / 1M tokens
Cache read
—
Cache write
—
Released
Apr 8, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2024
Takes in
Text, Image
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
File attachments
No
Access
Paid
License
Proprietary
Rarity
Uncommon
Set number
298/1044

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Qwen’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: www.alibabacloud.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Qwen-VL Max, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 52% of the 165 models on the LMArena Vision: #86.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

3 providers sell Qwen-VL Max through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
Alibaba (China)Cheapest paidqwen-vl-max$0.23$0.57131K
Ofoxqwen/qwen-vl-max$0.23$0.58128K
AlibabaOfficialqwen-vl-max$0.80$3.20131K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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