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Qwen3.6 Flash
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.6-flash·GA·Closed·qwen3.6 series
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
At a glance
Official price$0.188 / $1.13 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.165 / $0.99
Merge Gateway Gateway · 6.1× spread
2 more $0 channels
Context1,000,000
⚠ Providers report 991,000–1,000,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImageVideo
Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2026-04-27 / 2026-04-27
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 19 providers17 with public prices · 2 subscription-covered
| 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 | $0.165 | $0.99 | $0.033 | — | 1,000,000 | 250,000 | |
| AIHubMix | Gateway | $0.17 tiered >256K: $0.68 | $1.01 | $0.017 | $0.211 | 991,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.188 tiered >256K: $0.75 | $1.13 | — | $0.234 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.188 | $1.13 | — | $0.234 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba Coding Plan (China) | Gateway | $0.188 | $1.13 | — | $0.234 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $0.188 | $1.13 | — | $0.234 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba Coding Plan | Gateway | $0.188 | $1.13 | — | $0.234 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.188 | $1.13 | — | $0.234 | 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.
Your usage cost
1AIHubMix$66.13
2Merge Gateway$66.66
3CrossModel$73.98
4NanoGPT$75.60
5Pioneer$75.75
6OpenRouter$93.75
7Alibaba (China) · Official$93.75
2 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Token Plan (China)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to AIHubMix to save $27.62/mo (29%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)budget_tokens ≥ 1 ≤ 64,000effort = noneeffort = higheffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = maxeffort = minimaleffort = xhigh
1 / 19 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
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