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Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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78Quality

Reasoning · Tools

Input$1.30/M

Output$7.80/M

Flagship Qwen model for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows

PaidProprietary880/1044

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Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Flagship Qwen model for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows

qwen3.6-max-preview

Type: Text
Quality: 78 · Top 22% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 262,144 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input price: $1.30 / 1M tokens
Output price: $7.80 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.13 / 1M tokens
Cache write: $1.63 / 1M tokens
Released: Apr 20, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: Apr 2025
Takes in: Text
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: No
File attachments: No
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 880/1044

Open Qwen docs Quality 78 Where to run it 7 Evolution 3/5 Meet its creature Battle Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Qwen’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: www.alibabacloud.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Qwen3.6 Max Preview, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 22% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #61.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#61 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.149.2 index
LMArena Text#59 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,447 rating
LMArena Text · Coding#66 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,472 rating
LMArena Text · Math#51 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,466 rating
LMArena Text · Creative writing#57 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,435 rating
LMArena WebDev#64 of 145
Each model builds a web app from the same prompt; people pick the better one.1,482 rating

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

7 providers sell Qwen3.6 Max Preview through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestNanoGPT$1.04 in · $6.24 out
From the labAlibaba$1.30 in · $7.80 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
NanoGPTCheapest paid`qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview`	$1.04	$6.24	246K
Pioneer`qwen3.6-max-preview`	$1.04	$6.24	240K
AIHubMix`qwen3.6-max-preview`	$1.27	$7.61	240K
AlibabaOfficial`qwen3.6-max-preview`	$1.30	$7.80	262K
Merge Gateway`qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview`	$1.31	$7.88	256K
Alibaba (China)`qwen3.6-max-preview`	$1.32	$7.90	246K
Ofox`qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview`	$2.15	$12.86	256K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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