Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
Qwen3.6 Flash by alibaba is offered by 20 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 18 of them. Its official list price is $0.188 per 1M input tokens and $1.13 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Merge Gateway at $0.165 / $0.99 per 1M, about 1.5× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 2 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 1,000,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 983,616 to 1,000,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and Video. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-04.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Token Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | ||
| Alibaba Token Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | ||
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.17 | $0.99 | $0.033 | — | 1,000,000 | 250,000 | |
| AIHubMix | Gateway | $0.17 tiered >256K: $0.68 | $1.01 | $0.017 | $0.21 | 991,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.19 | $1.13 | — | $0.23 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.19 tiered >256K: $0.75 | $1.13 | — | $0.23 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $0.19 | $1.13 | — | $0.23 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Pioneer | Gateway | $0.19 | $1.13 | $0.038 | $0.23 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.19 | $1.13 | — | $0.23 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| 302.AI | Gateway | $0.19 | $1.13 | — | — | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 4 of 20 providers.
2 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Token Plan (China)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.