Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series. It supports text, image, and video input with a 1M token context window. Tiered pricing kicks in above 256K tokens. Prompt caching is supported, with both explicit cache read and cache creation pricing.

alibaba/qwen3.6-flash

Organization: Alibaba
Family: qwen3.6
Providers: 17
Context: 1,000,000
Output limit: 65,536
Knowledge: —
Release: 2026-04-27
Updated: 2026-04-27
Weights: Closed
Input: text, image, video
Output: text
Capabilities: Tools, Reasoning, Structured, Temperature

Providers

Compare every cataloged offer for this model, including its provider, route, token limits, price, and capabilities.

18 offers · USD per million tokens

Provider	Model ID	Context	Output	Input / output · 1M	Reasoning	Tools	Structured	Details
302.AI	qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.188 / $1.133	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Alibaba (China)	qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.1875 / $1.125	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Alibaba Token Plan	qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.00 / $0.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Alibaba Token Plan (China)	qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.00 / $0.00	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
CrossModel	qwen/qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.19 / $1.13	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
DevPass (LLM Gateway)	qwen3.6-flash	983,616	65,536	$0.25 / $1.50	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
EmpirioLabs AI	qwen3-6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.25 / $1.50	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Impossibl	qwen/qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.25 / $1.50	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Kilo Gateway	qwen/qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.1875 / $1.125	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
LLM Gateway	alibaba/qwen3.6-flash	983,616	65,536	$0.25 / $1.50	Yes	Yes	No	View
LLMTR	qwen/qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.25 / $1.50	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Merge Gateway	qwen/qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	250,000	$0.165 / $0.99	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
NanoGPT	qwen/qwen3.6-flash	991,808	65,536	$0.19 / $1.16	No	No	No	View
Ofox	bailian/qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.25 / $1.50	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Ofox	qwen/qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	64,000	$0.25 / $1.50	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Alibabavia OpenRouter	qwen/qwen3.6-flash unknown	1,000,000	65,536	$0.1875 / $1.125	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
OrcaRouter	qwen/qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.25 / $1.50	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Pioneer	qwen3.6-flash	1,000,000	65,536	$0.1875 / $1.125	Yes	Yes	Yes	View

Prices and limits apply to each offer. A dash means the value is not provided. OpenRouter offers show the hosting provider and routing channel separately.

Pricing

Compare token rates and cache charges across available routes and hosting configurations.

USD per million tokens

Input from$0.00Per 1M input tokens

Output from$0.00Per 1M output tokens

Available offers18Across 17 providers

Lowest listed input and output prices across the offers above; they may belong to different providers. These are base rates, before conditional pricing, discounts or additional fees.

Endpoint price comparisonLatest observed snapshot · 1 lowest-priced configuration

InputOutput

Alibabaalibaba

$0.1875$1.125

qwen/qwen3.6-flashObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Input: $0.1875
Output: $1.125
Cache write: $0.234375

Additional fees and pricing conditions

overrides · USD per token for token prices; time windows use UTC.

[
  {
    "prompt": "0.00000075",
    "completion": "0.000003",
    "input_cache_write": "0.0000009375",
    "min_prompt_tokens": 256000
  }
]

Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates

Endpoint	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Cache read / 1M	Cache write / 1M
Alibabaalibaba	$0.1875	$1.125	—	$0.234375

Each row is a hosting configuration. Open an offer in Providers for its full pricing conditions and additional fees. Endpoint observations may differ from the routing catalog's base price.

Performance

Review reported latency and output-throughput percentiles from the latest observed rolling window.

Latest 30-minute observation

Time to first token · milliseconds

Latency distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 1 endpoint

P50P75P90P99

Alibabaalibaba

378–2,611.76 ms

All latency percentiles 1 endpoints

Endpoint	P50	P75	P90	P99
Alibabaalibaba	378 ms	439 ms	558 ms	2,611.76 ms

Output throughput · tokens per second

Throughput distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 1 endpoint

P50P75P90P99

Alibabaalibaba

101–227.74 t/s

All throughput percentiles 1 endpoints

Endpoint	P50	P75	P90	P99
Alibabaalibaba	101 t/s	140 t/s	157 t/s	227.74 t/s

Percentiles describe the observed request distribution. These are snapshots of a rolling window, not a historical time series.

Uptime

Compare successful request rates across the latest 5-minute, 30-minute, and 24-hour observations.

Successful requests by window

Availability by endpointCurrent overlapping windows · 1 endpoint

Endpoint5 minutes30 minutes24 hours

AlibabaalibabaObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

100%

99.97%

99.98%

Reported by OpenRouter at the time of collection; rate-limited requests are excluded. A dash means no measurement was reported. This is not a live availability check.

Technical details & API

Explore specifications, supported parameters, reasoning controls, and API identifiers for each OpenRouter route.

Current route specifications

qwen/qwen3.6-flashObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Context: 1,000,000
Maximum output: 65,536
Tokenizer: Qwen3
Input: text, image, video
Output: text
Moderation: No
Added to OpenRouter: 2026-04-27

Base URLhttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1

Model IDqwen/qwen3.6-flash

Version IDqwen/qwen3.6-flash

Reasoning

Required: No
Enabled by default: Not reported
Default effort: —
Supported efforts: —

Supported parameters

frequency_penalty
include_reasoning
logprobs
max_tokens
presence_penalty
reasoning
response_format
seed
stop
structured_outputs
temperature
tool_choice
tools
top_k
top_logprobs
top_p

Frequently asked questions

Answers based on the model metadata and serving offers currently in the catalog.

How much does Qwen3.6 Flash cost?

Listed rates start at $0.00 per million input tokens and $0.00 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.

Which providers offer Qwen3.6 Flash?

There are 18 cataloged offers across 17 providers. Compare model IDs, prices and limits in Providers.

What is the context window?

The cataloged model context is 1,000,000 tokens. Each serving endpoint may apply a different limit.

Does it support tools and structured output?

Tool calling: Yes. Structured output: Yes. Support can vary by endpoint.

Catalog history · 2 recorded revisions

Metadata observations since this model was first cataloged. These are not model release versions.

Sep 14, 2026 · 8076209d7317
Sep 12, 2026 · 5f8691368d48