Qwen4-Max-Preview

Released
2026-11-11
Last refreshed
2026-11-11
Status
Researched 1d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

Qwen4-Max-Preview is a released rag, agents, and long context model with 1M context; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

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Specifications
Family
Qwen4
Released
2026-11-11
Lifecycle
Scheduled retirement: November 25, 2026
Context
1M
Max output
384K
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by
Alibaba

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider pricing is available yet.

Links
Website

About

Qwen4-Max-Preview is the first Qwen4 model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released in preview on November 11, 2026 for coding, agentic and knowledge work. Alibaba Cloud Model Studio says it is available through Token Plan only, with no pay-as-you-go access, and that the preview runs from November 11 to November 25, 2026 (UTC+8), after which the model will be retired. It has a 1M-token context and up to 393,216 output tokens shared by thinking and the final answer, with thinking, tool calling and structured outputs.

Providers

No active provider routes are tracked for this model yet.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

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API versions

qwen4-max-preview