# Qwen4-Max is in preview, and Alibaba's own docs still stop at Qwen3.8 (slim)

> Vlad Cealicu on Qwen4-Max, which Alibaba's Qwen team put into preview on its Token Plan subscription on 11 November 2026. It can be tried in a coding tool from $6 a month, but no page of Alibaba's names its id, its price or its limits yet, and the plan's terms rule out scripts and back-ends.

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By Vlad Cealicu, 11 November 2026. 911 words, about 4 min to read.

At one minute past two this morning, Wednesday 11 November, Alibaba's Qwen team posted that Qwen4 is coming and that Qwen4-Max is in preview on its Token Plan, with early access in QwenWork, Qoder, the Qwen app and QwenStudio [[1]](#ref-1).

## What Alibaba said

The post promises "Deeper knowledge.

Fifty days ago, on 22 September, Alibaba said at its conference in Hangzhou that "its next-generation model, Qwen 4, is currently in training" [[2]](#ref-2).

## What I could check

Token Plan is a subscription on Qwen Cloud for coding and agent tools.

So the price of trying Qwen4-Max is known, and it's low.

2026

1. **22 September** (announced). "its next-generation model, Qwen 4, is currently in training", at Alibaba's conference in Hangzhou [[2]](#ref-2)
2. **27 October** (no qwen4). The newest entry in Qwen Cloud's model changelog [[5]](#ref-5)
3. **2 November** (no qwen4). Model Studio's list of models is last updated, Qwen3.8-Max the newest Max [[6]](#ref-6)
4. **9 November** (price). Token Plan's monthly credits go up and Pro's price comes down [[3]](#ref-3)
5. **11 November** (preview). Qwen4-Max in preview on Token Plan, by a post on X [[1]](#ref-1)
6. **11 November** (no qwen4). No model id, price or limits on any page of Alibaba's I could read [[3]](#ref-3) [[5]](#ref-5) [[6]](#ref-6)

I read all of these within an hour or so of the post, so some of them will have caught up by the time you read this.

## What the preview is

I don't mind a preview inside a subscription.

The terms are the part to read before you plan anything around it.

I don't count a model as released until a script can call it and I can read what it costs.

## Why it isn't on Anchor Terminal yet

We list 29 of Qwen's open-weight models and Qwen Code, and Qwen 4 has been on [Coming models](/upcoming/) since October.

## What I'd like to see

A model card.

Alibaba's post asks people to put Qwen4-Max to the test on a real problem.

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## References

Links checked on 11 November 2026.

[1] Alibaba's Qwen team (@alibaba_qwen), post on X, 11 November 2026, 02:01 UTC.

[2] Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Unveils Roadmap on Full-Stack AI Strategy from Chips, Cloud Infrastructure, Models to Agents, 22 September 2026, Hangzhou.

[3] Qwen Cloud, Token Plan individual, documentation.

[4] Qwen Cloud, Token Plan, pricing page.

[5] Qwen Cloud, model changelog.

[6] Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Supported models and capabilities overview.

[7] Qoder, changelog.

[8] AlphaSignal, Alibaba Launches Qwen4-Max With Agent-First Coding and 1M Token Support, 11 November 2026. Source for what it reported, the ids qwen4-max, qwen4-plus and qwen4-coder-plus in a Qwen Code pull request, a default of a million tokens in the client, and that these are client settings with no benchmarks published by Alibaba.