Qwen 4 has no published release date; a Max preview is listed

There is still no published general release date for Qwen 4. Checked on November 11, 2026, the official pages below separate three things: a training update, an earlier architecture preview, and a time-boxed Max preview.

On September 22, 2026, Alibaba’s Apsara press release said the next-generation model, Qwen 4, was in training. The same release describes a roadmap for later Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 series, projected to scale to 5 to 10 trillion parameters. That range is for those later series. The release does not publish it as a Qwen 4 specification, and it does not give a ship date.

On August 27, 2026, an Alibaba Cloud Community post opened the weights of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and called that model an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4. That is an architecture preview on an earlier model, not a Qwen 4 release, and it does not give a Qwen 4 date.

On November 11, 2026, Token Plan docs on both 千问 AI 平台 and QwenCloud list the model id qwen4-max-preview. The Chinese doc says the alias is qwen4.0-max-preview, that either id can be called, and that bills show qwen4.0-max-preview. The capability row says reasoning, visual understanding, and text generation.

Both docs call it a preview. The window they state is 10:00 on November 11, 2026 through 24:00 on November 25, 2026 (UTC+8). They say the preview will not change during that window and will be retired when it ends. During the promotion, the Chinese doc says Credit consumption is as low as 20% of the standard rate, and that calls from 22:00 to 08:00 (UTC+8) are charged at a further fifth of that rate, which it states as 4% of the original standard rate. The English QwenCloud doc states the same window as 20% of the standard rate, then an additional 80% off at night, which it also states as 4% of the standard rate. Neither page publishes a standalone per-token price for this preview. Both say the promotion can change.

A listed preview that the docs say will be removed on November 25 is not a general Qwen 4 launch. Parameter counts, benchmark scores, and a full release date are not in these pages.

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