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
18
Context
1,000,000
Output limit
65,536
Knowledge
—
Release
2026-04-27
Updated
—
Weights
Closed
Input
text, image/bmp, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, image/heic, video/mp4, video/x-msvideo, video/x-matroska, video/quicktime, video/x-flv, video/x-ms-wmv
Output
text
Capabilities
—

Providers

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19 offers · USD per million tokens
ProviderModel IDContextOutputInput / output · 1MReasoningToolsStructuredDetails
302.AI
qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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AIHubMix
qwen3.6-flash
991,00065,536— / ————
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Alibaba (China)
qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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Alibaba Token Plan
qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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Alibaba Token Plan (China)
qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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CrossModel
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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DevPass (LLM Gateway)
qwen3.6-flash
983,61665,536— / ————
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EmpirioLabs AI
qwen3-6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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Impossibl
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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Kilo Gateway
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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LLM Gateway
alibaba/qwen3.6-flash
983,61665,536— / ————
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LLMTR
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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Merge Gateway
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
1,000,000250,000— / ————
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Moark
Qwen3.6-Flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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NanoGPT
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
991,80865,536— / ————
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Ofox
bailian/qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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Ofox
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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Alibabavia OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
unknown
1,000,00065,536$0.1875 / $1.125YesYesYes
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OrcaRouter
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
1,000,00065,536— / ————
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

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USD per million tokens
Input from$0.1875Per 1M input tokens
Output from$1.125Per 1M output tokens
Available offers19Across 18 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
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
EndpointInput / 1MOutput / 1MCache read / 1MCache 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
374–3,926.02 ms
All latency percentiles 1 endpoints
EndpointP50P75P90P99
Alibabaalibaba374 ms410 ms567.6 ms3,926.02 ms

Output throughput · tokens per second

Throughput distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 1 endpoint
P50P75P90P99
Alibabaalibaba
107.5–221.71 t/s
All throughput percentiles 1 endpoints
EndpointP50P75P90P99
Alibabaalibaba107.5 t/s149 t/s172 t/s221.71 t/s

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

Uptime

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Successful requests by window
Availability by endpointCurrent overlapping windows · 1 endpoint
Endpoint5 minutes30 minutes24 hours
Alibabaalibaba

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

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Current route specifications
qwen/qwen3.6-flashObserved
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 $0.1875 per million input tokens and $1.125 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.

Which providers offer Qwen3.6 Flash?

There are 19 cataloged offers across 18 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: Not reported. Structured output: Not reported. Support can vary by endpoint.

Catalog history · 3 recorded revisions

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

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