Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Language Alibaba Qwen Partly verified Preview Released Apr 14, 2026
  • In Input modalities: Text Out Output modalities: Text
  • Reasoning
  • Reasoning can be off
  • Tool use
  • Structured output

Prices

2 offerings · prices as listed
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official Preview International · USD qwen3.6-max-preview
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readCache writeOutput
Standard no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 $1.30——$7.80
Explicit cache no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 —$0.13$1.625—
Prompts over 128K tokens no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 $2.00——$12.00
Prompts over 128K tokensExplicit cache no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 —$0.20$2.50—

Prices from Qwen3.6 Max Preview model (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 4, 2026)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official China · CNY qwen3.6-max-preview
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputOutput
Standard no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 ¥9.00¥54.00
Prompts over 128K tokens no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 ¥15.00¥90.00

Prices from 阿里云百炼:模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 4, 2026)

Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).

Details

Max input
245.76K
Max thinking budget
131.07K
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2025
Open weights
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Family
qwen-max
Model ID

Not stated on Alibaba Qwen’s pages: reasoning efforts, built-in tools, aliases.

Cited scores

From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us
  • Epoch Capabilities Index 149.8

    #61 of 118 listed models · CI 147.9–151.9

  • LMArena Text 1,460

    #41 of 163 listed models · CI 1,451–1,468 · 5,386 votes

  • Epoch AI · GPQA Diamond 87.4%

    #58 of 168 listed models · ±2.37

  • Epoch AI · Mystery Game Puzzles 19%

    #46 of 77 listed models · reasoning off · ±3.94

  • Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 7 – Nov 5, 2026
  • LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
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Sources

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