Qwen3.6 Max Preview
by Alibaba (Qwen)Chat
Flagship Qwen model for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Released
- 2026-04-20
- Weights
- Closed
alibaba/qwen3-6-max-preview · also seen as bailian/qwen3.6-max-preview, qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-04-20
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 262,144 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 65,536
- Providers
- 2 + 5 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $1.30–$1.32 in · $7.80–$7.90 out per 1M tokens · across all 2 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-05-09
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-04
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web search
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $1.30 in / $7.80 out per 1M tokens at Alibaba on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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