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API compatibility upgrade notice

An ongoing record of Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API compatibility upgrades to request parameters, response structures, and API behavior.

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio continuously upgrades API request parameters, response structures, and behavior to improve protocol compatibility. Updates are listed below by notice update date.

November 2, 2026

UpgradeAPIsDescription
Align max_tokens behavior with the latest OpenAI protocolOpenAI Chat Completions API / DashScope API
  • Before: the limit varies by model and thinking_budget, covering either the final answer alone or reasoning and the answer combined.
  • After: starting with the next newly launched Qwen model, max_tokens for new Qwen models is equivalent to max_completion_tokens and limits the combined tokens for reasoning and the final answer. The meaning of max_completion_tokens is unchanged. With thinking enabled, reasoning shares the output budget. The behavior of existing models remains unchanged.