The Qwen4-Max Preview arrives. Alibaba opened on Tuesday, November 11, 2026, the preview of Qwen4-Max, the flagship model of the new Qwen generation. The multimodal model supports text, image and video inputs and offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens.
What we know about Qwen4-Max Preview
The preview is available via Alibaba's Token Plan, with early access also in the Qwen App, Qoder, QwenWork and QwenStudio. The period runs until November 25, 2026 (Beijing time). Alibaba has not published public benchmarks, parameter counts or regular API pricing at this stage.
According to the documentation, the model stands out in deep reasoning, coding, visual understanding and agentic tasks. It is compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, supports function calling, web search and structured outputs. The model ID is qwen4-max-preview.
Why it matters
The arrival of another Qwen generation reinforces competition in the frontier model market, especially in the Chinese and open-weight segment. The 1M token window facilitates analysis of long documents, code and complex workflows without as much chunking.
As the preview is limited and without official benchmarks, real performance still needs to be evaluated by the community. Sources: Alibaba Cloud documentation and reports from TechNode and other outlets.
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