QVQ Max pricing.

prices as of · 3 providers · 3 prices

Alibaba Cloud's QVQ Max holds 131k tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Closed weights: only Alibaba Cloud and its licensed partners run it, so every other price below resells the same service.

QVQ Max costs $1.20 in and $4.80 out per million tokens from Alibaba Cloud; the cheapest price we can explain is $8.03 at Alibaba Cloud (China), checked 16 Sept 2026.

tool callingreads imagesreasoning131k contextreleased 25 Mar 2025

Alibaba Cloud list price

$8.40/M tokens

$1.20 in · $4.80 out

read · 137% above the market median

Cheapest price we can explain

$8.03/M tokens

$1.15 in · $4.59 out · 4% under list

Alibaba Cloud (China)
View at Alibaba Cloud (China)

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What it costs for your work

pages a month

Alibaba Cloud list price

$1.01a month

cheapest we can explain · Alibaba Cloud (China)

$0.963a month

difference

$0.0445saved

A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.

Every provider selling QVQ Max

Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Alibaba Cloud's price.

The maker's list price

1 price

What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.

  • Alibaba Cloud

    The price Alibaba Cloud charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.

    $1.20 / $4.80in / out per M

    1.00×of list price

Cheaper, and we know why

1 price

Below list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.

Same price as the maker

1 price

The same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.

  • NanoGPT

    The same price Alibaba Cloud charges.

    128k context hereNanoGPT

    $1.20 / $4.80in / out per M

    1.00×of list price

Frequently asked

Who sells QVQ Max cheapest?
Alibaba Cloud (China), at $1.15 in and $4.59 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. 4% under the list price, an ordinary reseller margin.
Is QVQ Max open weights?
No. Alibaba Cloud keeps the weights, so every price on this page is Alibaba Cloud's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
How much context does QVQ Max hold?
131,072 tokens in one call, which is about 131k, and it can call your own functions.
How does QVQ Max compare with the rest of the market?
At $8.40 per million tokens, Alibaba Cloud's price is 137% above the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.
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