How much does Qwen3.6 Plus cost?

Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325/M input tokens and $1.95/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Creation (5min) at $0.4063/M tokens and Cache Read (5min) at $0.0325/M tokens.

What is the context length of Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 65,536 completion tokens.

Does Qwen3.6 Plus support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. Qwen3.6 Plus accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

What inputs and outputs does Qwen3.6 Plus support?

Qwen3.6 Plus accepts text, images, and video as input and returns text.

Which providers serve Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: Alibaba Cloud Int..

What other text models does Qwen have?

Qwen3.8 Max Prime, Qwen3.8 Omni Flash, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) and 36 more are other text models from Qwen.

When was Qwen3.6 Plus released?

Qwen3.6 Plus was released on April 2, 2026.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

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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 major gains in agentic coding, front-end development, and overall reasoning, with a significantly improved “vibe coding” experience. The model excels at complex tasks such as 3D scenes, games, and repository-level problem solving, achieving a 78.8 score on SWE-bench Verified. It represents a substantial leap in both pure-text and multimodal capabilities, performing at the level of leading state-of-the-art models.

Modalities

In / out price

$0.325 / $1.95per 1M

Context

1.0M

Released

Apr 2, 2026

Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request without routing.

Latency / throughput


	$0.325	$1.95	$0.40625	$0.0325	1.06s	43 tok/s	100.00%

Input $0.325Output $1.95
43 tok/s100.00% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.3195/M tokens

Output

$1.949/M tokens

Qwen3.6 Plus — Price history

Price history

No effective price data for this selection

		$0.319	$1.95	3.0%	100.0%

Effective in $0.319Effective out $1.95
Token share
100.0%

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.62%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.62%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.51%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus (Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and Vals AI)
Source	Benchmark	Score
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus Coding Index	54.5
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus GPQA Diamond	88.2%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus HLE	27.8%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus IFBench	75.2%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus τ²-Bench Telecom	97.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus AA-LCR	78.3%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus τ-Bench Banking	20.8%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus GDPval-AA	24.8%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus CritPt	2.9%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus Terminal-Bench Hard	43.9%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 Plus Terminal-Bench 2.1	61.4%
Design Arena	Qwen3.6 Plus Models Arena 3D Elo	1182
Design Arena	Qwen3.6 Plus Models Arena Asciiart Elo	1110
Design Arena	Qwen3.6 Plus Models Arena Code Categories Elo	1226
Design Arena	Qwen3.6 Plus Models Arena Data Visualization Elo	1223
Design Arena	Qwen3.6 Plus Models Arena Game Development Elo	1201
Design Arena	Qwen3.6 Plus Models Arena SVG Elo	1151
Design Arena	Qwen3.6 Plus Models Arena UI Component Elo	1222
Design Arena	Qwen3.6 Plus Models Arena Website Elo	1234
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus AIME	94.6%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus CaseLaw v2	51.4%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Code Migration	11.1%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus CorpFin v2	61.9%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus EMB	32.9%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Finance Agent (v2)	40.8%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus GPQA Diamond	87.4%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1	1.3%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus LiveCodeBench	86.0%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus LegalBench	84.2%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Legal Research Bench	14.9%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus MedCode	36.9%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus MedScribe	77.0%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus MMLU Pro	87.7%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus MMMU Pro	84.2%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus MortgageTax	68.0%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus ProgramBench	0.0%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus SAGE v1	44.9%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus SWE-bench	73.4%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Tax Agent Bench	7.7%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus TaxEval v2	74.7%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Terminal-Bench 2.1	53.2%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Vals Index	32.0%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Vals Multimodal Index	51.5%
Vals AI	Qwen 3.6 Plus Vibe Code Bench v1.1	25.6%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

3.39Btokens

Time Series Prediction

new

3.26Btokens

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that connects to your messaging apps and takes real actions on your behalf, from running commands and browsing the web to managing files and sending emails.

3.25Btokens

Thrive Companions

new

783Mtokens

There are many coding agents, but this one is yours.

666Mtokens

Rest of OpenRouter

141M

Top 5 Apps

29.2M

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

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