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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Source description (English)

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
65,536 tokens
Architecture
text->text
Tokenizer
Qwen
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$1.027
per 1M tokens
  • ≤128K$1.027
  • >128K$1.58
Output
$6.162
per 1M tokens
  • ≤128K$6.162
  • >128K$9.48
Cache write
$1.2837
per 1M tokens
  • ≤128K$1.2837
  • >128K$1.975
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Reasoning required
No
Default parameters
Yes
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

Yes

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 7, 2026

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OpenRouter

Alibaba

Not provided
Context
262K
Maximum output
66K
Input
$1.027
Output
$6.162
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
$1.2837
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