alibaba/qwen-vl-maxClosed APIQwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
Benchmark Pricing$0.80 / 1M in$3.20 / 1M out
Context: 131,072 tokens•Max Output: 8,192 tokens•Knowledge: 2024-04•Released: 2024-04-08
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Context Window131,072131.1K tokens
Max Output8,1928.2K tokens
LicenseProprietaryCloud API only
Input Modalities
TextVision
Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)
Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema
MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS
✓ Qwen-VL Max natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.
MCP Context Window Recommendations
With a context capacity of 131,072 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.
API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE
// Example: Calling Qwen-VL Max via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.ALIBABA_API_KEY,
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "alibaba/qwen-vl-max",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);PRICING BY PROVIDER
Alibabaqwen-vl-max
$0.80 / $3.20
Ofoxbailian/qwen-vl-max
$0.23 / $0.58$0.05 cache
Alibaba (China)qwen-vl-max
$0.23 / $0.57
Qiniuqwen-vl-max-2025-01-25
$0.43 / $1.30
Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.
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