Qwen3.6 Plus
ActiveQwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance inference. Compared to the 3.5 series, it delivers...
Overview
Qwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance inference. Compared to the 3.5 series, it delivers...
History
Qwen3.6 Plus became available via the Alibaba API on 2026-04-02.
Training & availability
Alibaba has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 1.0M tokens.
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Input modalities: text, image, video.
Recommended for: vision, long-context.
Pricing
- Input: $0.3250 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.9500 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3-6-plus",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Not supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Standard pricing band. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.
- Quality percentile
- —
- Effective price
- $1.54/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $0.325/1M in
$1.95/1M out
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