Qwen previews Qwen4-Max flagship model on Alibaba Token Plan

Marking the first public preview from the Qwen4 generation, Qwen4-Max rolls out across Alibaba’s Token Plan, QwenWork, Qoder, the Qwen app and QwenStudio behind an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API key.

Alibaba’s Qwen team opened early preview access to Qwen4-Max at 07:31 IST on 11 November 2026, introducing the first flagship model from its upcoming Qwen4 series. Positioned for multi-file software engineering, front-end builds, knowledge synthesis, and long-running agentic workflows, Qwen4-Max is available initially through Alibaba’s Token Plan subscription alongside QwenWork, Qoder, the Qwen mobile and web app, and QwenStudio.

Unified Token Plan tiers and coding tool compatibility

On QwenCloud, Token Plan bundles Qwen4-Max alongside Qwen and third-party text, vision, video, and speech models under a single API key supporting both OpenAI and Anthropic request protocols, allowing drop-in configuration inside Qwen Code, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Codex, OpenCode, Kilo CLI, and OpenClaw. Individual subscriptions span four tiers: Lite for 1 to 2 concurrent agents (from $6 per month standard, or $3 promotional first-month entry), Essential at 2.25 times Lite usage credits for 2 to 3 agents, Standard at 4 times Lite credits for 3 to 4 agents, and Pro at 10 times Lite credits for 6 to 8 concurrent agents. Qwen has not yet released parameter counts, context lengths, benchmark scores, or standalone pay-as-you-go token pricing for Qwen4-Max.

Technical details

Preview timestamp

11 November 2026 at 07:31 IST

Subscription tiers

Lite ($6/month, $3 promo), Essential (2.25 times credits), Standard (4 times) and Pro (10 times for 6 to 8 agents)

API request compatibility

Unified base URL and API key supporting both OpenAI and Anthropic request schemas

Compatible coding harnesses

Qwen Code, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Codex, OpenCode, Kilo CLI and OpenClaw

First-party surfaces

QwenCloud Token Plan, QwenWork, Qoder, Qwen app and QwenStudio

Release details & context

Multimodal Token Plan bundling and undisclosed architectural specs

On the QwenCloud Token Plan pricing page and Qwen’s preview announcement on X, Alibaba offers Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Individual and Team subscriptions discounted below standalone pay-as-you-go metering (plus a $4 referral credit on a referred user’s first payment). Through one unified API key, subscribers call Qwen4-Max as well as multimodal Qwen and external checkpoints covering chat, vision, video generation, speech recognition and live voice, including glm-5.2, deepseek-v4-pro and wan2.7-image-pro.

Unlike Alibaba’s research disclosures around QwenGyre elastic reinforcement learning, Qwen opened the Qwen4-Max preview without publishing total or active parameter counts, maximum context window length, benchmark scorecards or standalone per-million-token pricing.

Common questions

Has Alibaba published parameter counts or per-token API rates for Qwen4-Max?

Not in the initial preview: Qwen rolled out Qwen4-Max through subscription tiers starting at $6 per month ($3 promotional first month) without disclosing model size, context window or standalone pay-as-you-go rates.

Which third-party model families are bundled alongside Qwen4-Max in Token Plan?

Alongside Qwen’s own text, vision, video and speech models, QwenCloud Token Plan exposes third-party endpoints including glm-5.2, deepseek-v4-pro and wan2.7-image-pro behind one OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API key.