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Qwen3.6 Plus
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.6-plus·GA·Closed·qwen series
Earlier Qwen multimodal workhorse for million-token agent and document tasks
At a glance
Official price$0.50 / $3.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.05 · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.276 / $1.65
Merge Gateway Gateway · 7.2× spread
4 more $0 channels
Context1,000,000
⚠ Providers report 262,144–1,000,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2026-04-02 / 2026-04-02
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence40.5
Value65
Coding54.5
Agentic29
Output speed56 tok/s
TTFT2.2 s
Cost per task$0.3569
Value formulaIQ 40.5 ÷ min blended $0.620 = 65
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 27 providers23 with public prices · 4 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 Coding Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | ||
| Alibaba Coding 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 | $0.276 | $1.65 | $0.055 | — | 1,000,000 | 250,000 | |
| AIHubMix | Gateway | $0.28 tiered >256K: $1.13 | $1.69 | $0.028 | $0.352 | 991,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| CrossModel | Gateway | $0.32 tiered >256K: $1.25 | $1.88 | $0.032 | $0.40 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| NanoGPT qwen-3.6-plus | Gateway | $0.325 | $1.95 | $0.033 | $0.406 | 991,808 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.325 tiered >256K: $1.30 | $1.95 | — | $0.406 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.325 | $1.95 | — | $0.406 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.50 tiered >256K: $2.00 | $3.00 | $0.05 | $0.625 | 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$110.28
2Merge Gateway$111.25
3CrossModel$123.44
4NanoGPT$127.40
5Pioneer$131.30
6OpenRouter$162.50
10Alibaba (China) · Official$196.00
4 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan (China), Alibaba Coding Plan etc.); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to AIHubMix to save $85.72/mo (44%)
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 ≤ 131,072effort = noneeffort = higheffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = maxeffort = minimaleffort = xhigh
4 / 27 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended