Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
🇨🇳 Qwen (Alibaba) · Qwen3.6 Max
Overview
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview is a large language model API from Qwen (Alibaba), part of its Qwen3.6 Max model family. Priced at $1.04 per million input tokens and $6.24 per million output tokens, it occupies the mid-range, balancing capability against running cost. Output tokens cost about 6× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. A large 262K-token context window (≈393 pages of text) lets it take in whole books, large codebases, or lengthy transcripts in a single call. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 40 (B grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $1.04 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $6.24 |
| Cache Write | per 1M tokens | $1.30 |
- Provider
- 通義千問(阿里) (Qwen (Alibaba))
- Model Family
- Qwen3.6 Max
- Version String
- qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- Text
- Context Window
- 262,144 tokens
- Output Limit
- 65,536 tokens
Index Metrics
Cross-domain capability indexes evaluated by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Data source: Artificial Analysis
Performance Metrics
Real-world benchmarks, updated every 72 hours by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Use Case Analysis
Model strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases based on benchmarks and official documentation
Strength
- Agentic Coding Improvements Significant agentic coding improvements. Achieves top score on six major coding benchmarks including SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0. Official
Best For
- Agentic Coding Tasks Complex coding tasks requiring agentic capabilities and multi-step reasoning. Official
Weakness
- Preview Status Still under active development as a preview release. Further improvements expected in subsequent versions. Official
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $1.04 | OpenRouter | |
| Cache Write | $1.30 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $6.24 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview Input price: $1.04/M tokens
- Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview Output price: $6.24/M tokens
- Context window: 262,144 tokens
- Provider: Qwen (Alibaba)
- Model family: Qwen3.6 Max
- Modalities: Text
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily