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Qwen2.5-Max

Flagship

Alibaba's closed-weights flagship. Frontier-quality MoE that competes with Claude / GPT on Chinese benchmarks at competitive pricing.

Qwen2.5-Max is a frontier AI model from Qwen. It costs $1.600 per million input tokens and $6.400 per million output tokens (blended $3.040/M), with a 32,000-token context window.

INPUT
$1.600/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$6.400/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$3.040/M
unchanged since 3 May
CONTEXT
32,000
tokens
What it is good at
  • Frontier on Chinese benchmarks
  • MoE inference economics
  • Strong tool use
  • Multilingual
Typical use cases
  • Chinese-first production chat
  • Multilingual agents
  • Cost-sensitive frontier traffic

Benchmarks

vs. best public score
MMLU87%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
MATH85%
High-school competition math problems.
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
LMArena Elo1296 Elo
Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Qwen2.5-Max cost?

Qwen2.5-Max costs $1.600 per million input tokens and $6.400 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $3.040 per million tokens.

What is Qwen2.5-Max's context window?

Qwen2.5-Max supports up to 32,000 tokens of context in a single request.

What is Qwen2.5-Max best for?

Qwen2.5-Max is well suited to Frontier on Chinese benchmarks, MoE inference economics and Strong tool use.

Who makes Qwen2.5-Max?

Qwen2.5-Max is developed and served by Qwen. It was released in Jan 2025.

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