Qwen-Max
Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among [Qwen models](/qwen), especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further post-trained with curated Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) methodologies. The parameter count is unknown.
Context window
This model accepts 31K tokens in one request (~23K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- Won't fitLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- Won't fitSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
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- Context window
- 30,720 tokens (31K)
- Max output tokens
- 8,192 tokens (8K)
- Speed tier
- balanced
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Model family
- Qwen
- Release date
- Feb 2025
- Input cost
- $1.60/M / 1M tokens
- Output cost
- $6.40/M / 1M tokens
Capabilities
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- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Supported
- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Not supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
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