Qwen: Qwen-Max

Name: Alibaba Qwen-Max
Price: 1.04 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Alibaba

alibaba/qwen-max

Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among Qwen models, especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion...

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Input price: $1.04USD / 1M tokens
Output price: $4.16USD / 1M tokens
Context window: N/A
Max output: 8.2K

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Specifications

Pricing

Input: $1.04 / 1M tokens
Output: $4.16 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.21 / 1M tokens

Context & modalities

Max output: 8,192 tokens
Input: Text
Output: Text

Capabilities

Chat: Supported
Vision: Not supported
Reasoning: Not supported
Structured output: Supported
Function calling: Supported
Audio input: Not supported

Access

Provider: Alibaba
Model ID: alibaba/qwen-max
Execution: sync
Base URL: https://api.sandbase.ai
API: Chat Completions API
Endpoint: /v1/chat/completions

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Chat Completions API endpoint

https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions

Model ID

alibaba/qwen-max

# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "model": "alibaba/qwen-max",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello"
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 2048
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

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Questions

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How do I call Alibaba Qwen-Max through SandBase?

Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/qwen-max" to Chat Completions API (/v1/chat/completions) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.

How much does Alibaba Qwen-Max cost?

$1.04 per 1M input tokens and $4.16 per 1M output tokens, billed per request from your SandBase balance. Discounts, when available, are shown in the pricing on this page.

Which features does Alibaba Qwen-Max support?

Alibaba Qwen-Max supports function calling, structured output. See Specifications above for the full list.

Do I need a separate Alibaba account?

No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Alibaba Qwen-Max and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.