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Qwen3.6 Plus (Alibaba Cloud)
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.6-plus-2·GA·Closed·qwen series
Earlier Qwen multimodal workhorse for million-token agent and document tasks
At a glance
Reference price$0.50 / $3.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.05 · LLM Gateway
Lowest paid$0.50 / $3.00
LLM Gateway Gateway
Context262,144
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImageVideo
Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2026-04-02 / 2026-04-02
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 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway alibaba/qwen3.6-plus | Gateway | $0.50 tiered >256K: $2.00 | $3.00 | $0.05 | — | 262,144 | 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
1LLM Gateway$196.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = max
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended