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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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. $1.027 per million input tokens, $6.162 per million output tokens. 262,144 token context window, maximum output of 65,536 tokens. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

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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
/M tokens
  • ≤128K$1.027
  • >128K$1.58
Output
$6.162
/M tokens
  • ≤128K$6.162
  • >128K$9.48
Cache Creation (5min)
$1.2837
/M tokens
  • ≤128K$1.2837
  • >128K$1.975
Cache Read (5min)
$0.1027
/M tokens
  • ≤128K$0.1027
  • >128K$0.158
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Moderated
No
Default parameters
Yes
API

Quick start

Call this exact model ID through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API.

curl 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

Input → Output

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

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Alibaba

unknown
Context
262K
Maximum output
66K
Input
$1.03
Output
$6.16
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
$1.28
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