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Qwen Released February 1, 2025 Synced Apr 7, 2026

Qwen: Qwen-Max

Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among [Qwen models](/qwen), especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion...

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Why it stands out

Tool use support makes it viable for function-calling and agentic pipelines.

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Text-only input — image or audio workflows require a separate model in the pipeline.
33K context window is shorter than the longest-context frontier models available today.
No benchmark score currently tracked — evaluate using task-specific testing alongside pricing and capability data.

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February 1, 2025

Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among [Qwen models](/qwen), especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further post-trained with curated Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) methodologies. The parameter count is unknown.

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