Qwen4-Max at a glance
Alibaba opened a preview of Qwen4-Max, the flagship of the Qwen4 family, on November 11, 2026, through Token Plan and early access in QwenWork, Qoder, the Qwen app and QwenStudio. Alibaba's documentation lists a 1-million-token context window; no benchmarks, parameter count or per-token price has been published.
What changed with Qwen4-Max
Alibaba's Qwen team announced the Qwen4 family on November 11, 2026 and opened a preview of its flagship, Qwen4-Max, the same day. The preview model, listed in Alibaba Cloud's documentation as qwen4-max-preview, is live on the Token Plan subscription and in early access on QwenWork, Qoder, the Qwen app and QwenStudio. Qwen says the new generation brings deeper knowledge and richer world understanding, with stronger coding, front-end and professional software work and better agent skills; those are the vendor's claims, and it published no benchmark table or model card with the preview.
Alibaba's Token Plan documentation lists a context window of 1,000,000 tokens and a maximum output of 393,216 tokens including reasoning, with text, image and video input, text output, function calling, structured outputs and hybrid thinking on by default. Access is Token Plan only: there is no pay-as-you-go API, and the plan's terms limit the model to interactive use in coding and agent tools, not automated batch scripts or an application backend. Personal plans run $6 to $43 a month for 20,000 to 200,000 credits, with a $3 entry offer for new users. The preview window closes at midnight at the end of November 25, 2026 (UTC+8) and the preview model is then retired, unchanged in between. As of November 11, 2026, Artificial Analysis had not published a page for Qwen4-Max, and Alibaba has not announced a parameter count, per-token pricing, open weights or a general-availability date.
Qwen4-Max in numbers
Values are copied from the linked source on the date shown. They are not IA Compa measurements.
- Context windowas of · Source for Context window: alibabacloud.com (opens in a new tab)
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Maximum output tokens, reasoning included (Alibaba documentation)as of · Source for Maximum output tokens, reasoning included (Alibaba documentation): alibabacloud.com (opens in a new tab)
- 393,216 tokens
How it compares
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Where to compare Qwen4-Max
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Why Qwen4-Max matters for businesses
Why it matters: Qwen is one of the model lines agencies actually build on, and a two-week, fixed-version preview is a rare clean chance to test a coming flagship on real client work before it can change under you. The catch is the shape of the access: subscription credits instead of per-token billing, and no backend use, so anything you validate now still needs a second decision when the full release and its prices land.
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- Supported models and capabilities overview: Qwen4-Max preview (Token Plan) (opens in a new tab)Official
Alibaba Cloud · alibabacloud.com
- Token Plan documentation: Qwen4-Max preview access, limits and window (opens in a new tab)Official
Alibaba Cloud · alibabacloud.com
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