Qwen VL Max
qwen/qwen-vl-maxVision-language specialist strong on documents, charts and OCR-heavy enterprise inputs.
Model overview
Context window
128K
tokens
Input price
—
quoted on request
Output price
—
quoted on request
Weekly volume
—
tokens / week
Open weights
No
API only
Capabilities
3
of 11 tags
Description
Qwen VL Max is a vision model from Alibaba Qwen. Webparam does not stock this model yet and can source it on request — tell us what you need it for and we will come back with availability and a price. Alibaba Qwen’s stated focus is the broadest open model family in the world. The weights are not published, so it is API-only.
Capabilities
- Vision input
- Accepts images alongside text in the prompt.
- Tool calling
- Calls functions you define and returns their arguments as structured data, the basis of agents.
- Streaming
- Emits tokens as they are generated, so answers appear progressively rather than all at once.
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Excellent document and table understanding
- Strong CJK OCR
- Reasonable pricing for vision
Weaknesses
- Natural-scene reasoning trails document skill
- No JSON mode
Pricing
Free| Rate | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | — not charged | — |
Free at the point of use; fair-use rate limits apply to the free tier. Illustrative placeholder pricing.
Context window
128Ktokens
covers prompt and response together, so a long input leaves less room for the answer.
Supported features
| Feature | Support |
|---|---|
| Tool calling | Supported |
| JSON mode | Not supported |
| Streaming | Supported |
| Vision input | Supported |
| Audio input | Not supported |
| Long context | Not supported |
| Open weights | Not supported |
| Reasoning | Not supported |
| Fine-tunable | Not supported |
| Batch | Not supported |
| Caching | Not supported |
Example use cases
Invoice and form extraction
Excellent document and table understanding
Chart reading
Strong CJK OCR
Screenshot QA
Reasonable pricing for vision
Comparison
| Attribute | Qwen VL Max | Qwen3 Max | Kimi VL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128K | 256K | 128K |
| Input price | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Output price | — not charged | — not charged | — not charged |
| Tool calling | Supported | Supported | Not supported |
| JSON mode | Not supported | Supported | Not supported |
| Vision input | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Open weights | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Prompt caching | Not supported | Supported | Not supported |
Best value in each row is highlighted. Illustrative placeholder data.
Provider information
View Alibaba Qwen →Alibaba Qwen · 通义千问 · Hangzhou, China · est. 2023 (Model lab; parent Alibaba founded 1999)
Alibaba's Qwen family spans every size class from edge models to frontier MoE systems, most released with open weights. Its breadth (chat, coding, vision, embeddings) and permissive licensing made it the default base model for much of the global open-source ecosystem.
Recent releases
Documentation
Frequently asked questions
Input is billed at $0.00 per 1M tokens, and there is no separate output charge. Every figure on this page is an illustrative placeholder.