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Qwen3.6 Max Preview
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview·GA·Closed·qwen series
Flagship Qwen model for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows
At a glance
Official price$1.32 / $7.90 per 1M
Cache read $0.132 · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$1.03 / $6.16
OpenRouter Gateway · 2.1× spread
Context245,800
⚠ Providers report 240,000–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2026-04-20 / 2026-04-20
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence41.1
Value18
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed62 tok/s
TTFT4.19 s
Value formulaIQ 41.1 ÷ min blended $2.311 = 18
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 13 providers13 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $1.03 tiered >128K: $1.58 | $6.16 | — | $1.28 | 262,144 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $1.03 | $6.16 | — | $1.28 | 262,144 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $1.04 | $6.24 | $0.52 | — | 245,760 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Pioneer | Gateway | $1.04 | $6.24 | $0.208 | $1.30 | 240,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| AIHubMix | Gateway | $1.27 tiered >128K: $2.11 | $7.61 | $0.127 | $1.58 | 240,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $1.30 | $7.80 | $0.13 | $1.63 | 262,144 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway alibaba/qwen-3.6-max-preview | Cloud | $1.30 | $7.80 | $0.26 | $1.63 | 240,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $1.30 | $7.80 | $0.13 | $1.63 | 262,144 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $1.31 | $7.88 | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| EmpirioLabs AI qwen3-6-max-preview | Gateway | $1.31 tiered >128K: $1.97 | $7.88 | $1.31 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 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
1Pioneer$420.16
2NanoGPT$457.60
3AIHubMix$497.32
4Alibaba · Official$509.60
5DevPass (LLM Gateway)$509.60
6OpenRouter$513.50
Switch to Pioneer to save $89.44/mo (18%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
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_tokenseffort = noneeffort = higheffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = max
3 / 13 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
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