Qwen3-Max, the first trillion-parameter model from Alibaba Cloud, was one of the company’s most expensive models on its release in September, with tiered pricing that charged a minimum of US$0.861 per million input tokens and US$3.441 per million output tokens for application programming interface (API) users.Alibaba Cloud is the AI and cloud services unit of Hangzhou-based Alibaba, owner of the South China Morning Post.On Thursday, the company reduced prices by almost 50 per cent across the dif...