# Qwen4 Max

> Qwen4 Max is the preview of Alibaba's Qwen4 family, announced on 2026-11-11, with stronger coding and agent skills. It takes text and image input and supports reasoning. Bring your own Alibaba Cloud Token Plan or Token Harbor key to use it.

**ID**: `qwen/qwen4-max`  
**Creator**: Qwen  
**Category**: multimodal  
**Context**: 1M tokens  
**Pricing**: $2.00 / $6.00 per 1M · billed by your provider (BYOK)  
**Released**: 2026-11-11  
**Web page**: https://anyrouter.dev/model/qwen/qwen4-max

**Input modalities**: text, image, video  
**Output modalities**: text  

**Tokenizer**: Qwen

**Capabilities**: chat, coding, streaming, vision, reasoning

## Usage

**Endpoint**: `POST https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions`

```bash
curl https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "qwen/qwen4-max",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Say hi in 3 words."
    }
  ]
}'
```

## Providers

| Provider | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| alibaba-token-plan-byok | $2.00/M (list) | $6.00/M (list) |
| qwencloud-token-plan-byok | $2.00/M (list) | $6.00/M (list) |
| tokenharbor-byok | $2.00/M (list) | $6.00/M (list) |

BYOK routes are billed by your own provider key — AnyRouter charges $0. Rates marked (list) are the provider's published list price.

## Model card

- Native context: 1000000 tokens [1]

### Strengths [1]

- 1,000,000-token context with up to 393,216 output tokens shared between thinking and the answer
- Text, image and video input with thinking on by default, tunable with reasoning_effort

### Known limits [1]

- Preview only, from 2026-11-11 to 2026-11-25 (UTC+8), then retired
- Token Plan only, no pay-as-you-go access, and Alibaba has published no price, benchmarks or weights

### Links

- announcement: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2120335993643684315
- docs: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen4-max-preview

### Sources

1. [Model Studio qwen4-max-preview](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen4-max-preview) (accessed 2026-11-15)

## Source

- Upstream docs: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2120335993643684315