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Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Mar 25, 2025

QVQ Max

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

  • Proprietary
  • Reasoning
  • Tool calling
  • Vision
Capability
—No ECI score yet
Input
$1.20per 1M tokens
Output
$4.80per 1M tokens
Context
131K8K max output
Pricing

What it costs

Input
$1.20per million tokens
Output
$4.80per million tokens
Blended (3:1)
$2.10pricier than 71% of priced models

Typical monthly bills

Monthly usageEstimated cost
Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens$4.80
Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens$54.00
Production app250M input + 50M output tokens$540.00

Official Alibaba API price, as listed on models.dev.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for QVQ Max yet.

Specifications

The details

Lab
Alibaba (Qwen)
Released
Mar 25, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2024
Context window
131,072 tokens
Max output
8,192 tokens
Inputs
Text, Images
Output
Text
Reasoning
Always on
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
Weights
Proprietary
API model ID
qvq-maxon Alibaba
Availability
1 API providerlisted on models.dev

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Questions

About QVQ Max

How much does QVQ Max cost?

QVQ Max costs $1.20 input / $4.80 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $2.10 per million tokens, more expensive than 71% of the 360 priced models we track.

What is the context window of QVQ Max?

QVQ Max accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 8,192 tokens in one response.

How good is QVQ Max?

Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for QVQ Max yet.

Is QVQ Max open source?

No. QVQ Max is proprietary; you use it through Alibaba’s API or partner platforms.

What inputs does QVQ Max support?

QVQ Max accepts text and images and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.

When was QVQ Max released?

Alibaba (Qwen) released QVQ Max on Mar 25, 2025. Its training data runs to Apr 2024.

What are the best alternatives to QVQ Max?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Palmyra X5 (Writer, $0.60 / $6.00), Magistral Medium (Mistral AI, $2.00 / $5.00), Sonar Deep Research (Perplexity, $2.00 / $8.00) and Command A (Cohere, $2.50 / $10.00).