Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen · qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and...
Qwen3.6 Max Preview ranks #24 of 348 models in the default AI Benchmark Hub order (quality first, then cost). At $3.59 blended per million tokens, it is cheaper than 24% of models with published API pricing. Its 262,144-token context window is about the catalog median (262,144 tokens). A quality index of 79.9 places it at #24 of 41 models with an Arena Elo signal.
Context
Max output: 65536
Pricing
Output / 1M: 6.16
Blend / 1M: 3.59
Quality
Provider
Moderated: no
Monthly cost at this blended rate
Estimated API spend if every token is billed at $3.59per million (the blend of this model's input and output prices). Real bills depend on the input/output mix.
| Tokens / month | Est. cost (USD) |
|---|---|
| 1,000,000 | $3.59 |
| 10,000,000 | $35.95 |
| 100,000,000 | $359.45 |
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