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 long-context reasoning, supporting a 262K token context window. The model includes an integrated thinking mode that preserves reasoning traces across multi-turn conversations and supports structured output and function calling. Access is available exclusively through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and Qwen Studio APIs; no open weights are provided.

alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview

Organization: Alibaba
Family: qwen
Providers: 9
Context: 262,144
Output limit: 65,536
Knowledge: 2025-04
Release: 2026-04-20
Updated: 2026-04-20
Weights: Closed
Input: text
Output: text
Capabilities: Tools, Reasoning, Temperature

Providers

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10 offers · USD per million tokens

Provider	Model ID	Context	Output	Input / output · 1M	Reasoning	Tools	Structured	Details
DevPass (LLM Gateway)	qwen3.6-max-preview	262,144	65,536	$1.30 / $7.80	Yes	Yes	—	View
EmpirioLabs AI	qwen3-6-max-preview	256,000	65,536	$1.31 / $7.88	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Kilo Gateway	qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview	262,144	65,536	$1.027 / $6.162	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
LLM Gateway	alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview	262,144	65,536	$1.30 / $7.80	Yes	Yes	No	View
Merge Gateway	qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview	256,000	65,536	$1.31 / $7.88	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
NanoGPT	qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview	245,760	65,536	$1.04 / $6.24	No	No	No	View
Ofox	bailian/qwen3.6-max-preview	262,144	65,536	$2.15 / $12.86	Yes	Yes	—	View
Ofox	qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview	256,000	64,000	$2.15 / $12.86	Yes	Yes	—	View
Alibabavia OpenRouter	qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview unknown	262,144	65,536	$1.027 / $6.162	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Pioneer	qwen3.6-max-preview	240,000	64,000	$1.04 / $6.24	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

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USD per million tokens

Input from$1.027Per 1M input tokens

Output from$6.162Per 1M output tokens

Available offers10Across 9 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

$1.027$6.162

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

Input: $1.027
Output: $6.162
Cache write: $1.28375

Additional fees and pricing conditions

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

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    "input_cache_write": "0.000001975",
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Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates

Endpoint	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Cache read / 1M	Cache write / 1M
Alibabaalibaba	$1.027	$6.162	—	$1.28375

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

1,271–50,407.2 ms

All latency percentiles 1 endpoints

Endpoint	P50	P75	P90	P99
Alibabaalibaba	1,271 ms	3,102 ms	16,442 ms	50,407.2 ms

Output throughput · tokens per second

Throughput distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 1 endpoint

P50P75P90P99

Alibabaalibaba

62.5–83.43 t/s

All throughput percentiles 1 endpoints

Endpoint	P50	P75	P90	P99
Alibabaalibaba	62.5 t/s	74 t/s	80.1 t/s	83.43 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

AlibabaalibabaObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

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100%

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-max-previewObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Context: 262,144
Maximum output: 65,536
Tokenizer: Qwen
Input: text
Output: text
Moderation: No
Retirement: 2026-10-09
Added to OpenRouter: 2026-04-27

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

Model IDqwen/qwen3.6-max-preview

Version IDqwen/qwen3.6-max-preview-20260420

Reasoning

Required: No
Enabled by default: Yes
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 Max Preview cost?

Listed rates start at $1.027 per million input tokens and $6.162 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.

Which providers offer Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

There are 10 cataloged offers across 9 providers. Compare model IDs, prices and limits in Providers.

What is the context window?

The cataloged model context is 262,144 tokens. Each serving endpoint may apply a different limit.

Does it support tools and structured output?

Tool calling: Yes. Structured output: Not reported. 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 · f08cad2eea50
Sep 12, 2026 · 80ae033d9e62