Earlier Qwen multimodal workhorse for million-token agent and document tasks
Qwen3.6 Plus by alibaba is offered by 30 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 26 of them. Its official list price is $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Kilo Gateway at $0.25 / $1.50 per 1M, about 2.0× 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 4 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 27 on the Intelligence Index, with 54.5 for coding. Against its lowest blended price of $0.563 per 1M, that is roughly 48 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 56 tokens per second, with 2.19s to the first token.
The context window is 1,000,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 262,144 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, Video, and PDF. 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.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| 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 | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | ||
| Alibaba Token Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | ||
| Alibaba Coding Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | ||
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.25 | $1.50 | $0.025 | $0.31 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.28 | $1.65 | $0.055 | — | 1,000,000 | 250,000 | |
| AIHubMix | Gateway | $0.28 tiered >256K: $1.13 | $1.69 | $0.028 | $0.35 | 991,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| 302.AI | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.80 | — | — | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| CrossModel | Gateway | $0.32 tiered >256K: $1.25 | $1.88 | $0.032 | $0.40 | 1,000,000 | 65,536 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.33 | $1.95 | $0.033 | $0.41 | 991,808 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $0.50 tiered >256K: $2.00 | $3.00 | $0.05 | $0.63 | 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 30 providers.
2 / 30 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
4 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan, Alibaba Token Plan (China) etc.); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.