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Qwen3.6 Plus

Earlier Qwen multimodal workhorse for million-token agent and document tasks

qwen3.6-plus
Type
Text
Quality
76 · Top 24% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
65,536 tokens
Input price
$0.50 / 1M tokens
Output price
$3.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.05 / 1M tokens
Cache write
$0.63 / 1M tokens
Released
Apr 2, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2025
Takes in
Text, Image, Video
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
File attachments
No
Access
Paid
License
Proprietary
Rarity
Uncommon
Set number
852/1040
Open Qwen docsQuality 76Where to run it 28Evolution 3/4Meet its creatureBattle LongCat-2.0

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Qwen’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 18, 2026. Official source: www.alibabacloud.com.

How good is it?

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

Top 24% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #67.

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

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

28 providers sell Qwen3.6 Plus through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
Alibaba Coding PlanFreeqwen3.6-plusFreeFree1M
Alibaba Coding Plan (China)Freeqwen3.6-plusFreeFree1M
Alibaba Token PlanFreeqwen3.6-plusFreeFree1M
Alibaba Token Plan (China)Freeqwen3.6-plusFreeFree1M
Kilo GatewayCheapest paidstealth/qwen3.6-plus$0.25$1.501M
Merge Gatewayqwen/qwen3.6-plus$0.28$1.651M
AIHubMixqwen3.6-plus$0.28$1.69991K
302.AIqwen3.6-plus$0.30$1.801M
CrossModelqwen/qwen3.6-plus$0.32$1.881M
NanoGPTqwen/qwen3.6-plus$0.33$1.95992K
Show 18 more providers
ProviderInputOutputContext
OpenRouterqwen/qwen3.6-plus$0.33$1.951M
Pioneerqwen3.6-plus$0.33$1.951M
AlibabaOfficialqwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
Alibaba (China)qwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
Aurikoqwen-3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)qwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.00984K
EmpirioLabs AIqwen3-6-plus$0.50$3.001M
FrogBotqwen-3-6-plus$0.50$3.001M
LLM Gatewayalibaba/qwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.00984K
LLMTRqwen/qwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
Ofoxqwen/qwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
OpenCodeqwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.00262K
OrcaRouterqwen/qwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
Requestyqwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
Together AIQwen/Qwen3.6-Plus$0.50$3.001M
Vercel AI Gatewayalibaba/qwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
ZenMuxqwen/qwen3.6-plus$0.50$3.001M
Venice AIqwen-3-6-plus$0.63$3.751M

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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