Qwen3 0.6B (Reasoning)

Qwen3 0.6B (Reasoning)

Alibaba · Released Apr 28, 2025 Emerging
Intelligence #294 / 557
28.7 Our Score
Speed #19 / 259
224.6 tokens / sec
Input #218 / 560
$0.110 per 1M tokens
Output #339 / 560
$1.26 per 1M tokens
Context
Not reported

Analysis Summary

Qwen3 0.6B (Reasoning) sits in the Emerging tier on our leaderboard, ranked #294 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.110 input and $1.26 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market.

Editorial notes

Qwen3 0.6B Reasoning is a sub-1B model with very low benchmark scores across reasoning and coding; its ultra-low pricing is its only practical advantage for minimal inference tasks.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence1.5Technical1.2Value7Content2
Intelligence 1.5/10
Technical 1.2/10
Content 2/10
Value 7/10

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

6.5 Intelligence Index
0.9 Coding Index
21.1 Agentic Index
18 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 23.9% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 5.7% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 34.7% Multi-task language understanding
MATH 500 75% Mathematical problem-solving
AIME 10% Competition mathematics
AIME 2025 18% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 2.8% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 12.1% Live coding evaluation
τ²-Bench 21.1% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 23.3% Instruction following

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

ProviderAlibaba
Release Date April 28, 2025
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.11 $0.000110
Output $1.26 $0.001260