Qwen-VL-Max
Alibaba Cloud · 2025
Alibaba's flagship multimodal model with advanced vision-language understanding in Chinese/English.
Quick Facts
Parameters
Undisclosed (estimated ~100B+)
Context Window
128K tokens
Modalities
text, image
Open Source
No
Pricing
API from ~$0.50/1M tokens
Released
2025
Developer
Alibaba Cloud
About
Qwen-VL-Max is Alibaba Cloud's flagship multimodal large language model, part of the Qwen (通义千问) family. It excels at vision-language understanding tasks including image captioning, visual Q&A, document understanding, and multi-image reasoning. With strong performance in both Chinese and English, Qwen-VL-Max handles complex visual reasoning tasks like chart interpretation, diagram understanding, and detailed image analysis. It is particularly strong in understanding Chinese cultural contexts, documents, and scenes. Available through Alibaba Cloud's API and Tongyi Qianwen web interface.
Strengths
- +Leading vision-language understanding in Chinese contexts
- +Strong document and chart analysis
- +Bilingual proficiency in Chinese and English
- +Good multi-image reasoning capabilities
Weaknesses
- −Limited availability outside Asia
- −Smaller global community and ecosystem
- −Less capable on non-visual reasoning tasks
Best For
Chinese document and image understanding
Bilingual visual Q&A applications
Chinese cultural context analysis
Document digitization and understanding
Pricing
Free (Web)
$0
- Limited Qwen chat
- Basic vision tasks
- File uploads
API
From ~$0.50/1M tokens
- Pay-as-you-go
- Vision-language
- 128K context
Technical Specs
Parameters
Undisclosed (estimated ~100B+)
Context Window
128K tokens
Modalities
text, image
Languages
Open Source
No
Developer
Alibaba Cloud
Released: 2025
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