Qwen3.6 Plus

Language Alibaba Qwen Partly verified Released Apr 1, 2026
  • In Input modalities: TextImageVideo Out Output modalities: Text
  • Reasoning
  • Reasoning can be off
  • Tool use
  • Structured output

Prices

6 offerings · prices as listed
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official Global · USD qwen3.6-plus
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readCache writeOutput
Standard $0.276——$1.651
Explicit cache —$0.028$0.344—
Prompts over 256K tokens $1.101——$6.602

Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026) · Qwen3.6 Plus model (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official International · USD qwen3.6-plus
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readCache writeOutput
Standard $0.50——$3.00
Explicit cache —$0.050$0.625—
Prompts over 256K tokens $2.00——$6.00
Prompts over 256K tokensExplicit cache —$0.20$2.50—

Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026) · Qwen3.6 Plus model (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official China · CNY qwen3.6-plus
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputOutput
Standard ¥2.00¥12.00
Prompts over 256K tokens ¥8.00¥48.00

Prices from 阿里云百炼:模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official Germany (global scope) · US (global scope) · Japan (global scope) · USD qwen3.6-plus
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputOutput
Standard no longer listed since Oct 21, 2026 $0.276$1.651
Prompts over 256K tokens no longer listed since Oct 21, 2026 $1.101$6.602

Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)

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

Details

Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2025
Open weights
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Family
qwen-plus
Model ID

Not stated on Alibaba Qwen’s pages: reasoning efforts, max thinking budget.

Cited scores

From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us
  • Epoch Capabilities Index 148.8

    #63 of 118 listed models · CI 146.8–150.8

  • LMArena Text 1,443

    #58 of 163 listed models · CI 1,439–1,447 · 47,604 votes

  • Epoch AI · Chess Puzzles 16%

    #70 of 85 listed models · ±3.68

  • Epoch AI · FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 38.2%

    #58 of 84 listed models · ±2.88

    Also listed: reasoning off 32.3%

  • 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
  • LiveBench (White et al.), release 2026-06-25, livebench.ai, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This board, adapted from it, is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. · License · as of Jun 25, 2026
  • changes we made

Included in coding plans

All coding plans →

  1. 2 prices dropped on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Output (Reasoning on) $1.651 · Output (Prompts over 256K tokens, Reasoning on) $6.602

Sources

Alibaba Qwen’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →

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Alibaba Qwen · China · qwen.ai

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