Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #19 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $1.04 input and $6.24 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3.6 Max Preview delivers world-class reasoning, strong coding, and top-tier agentic performance with tool use and function calling across a 262K context window at competitive pricing.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | April 27, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 65,536 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.04 | $0.001040 |
| Output | $6.24 | $0.006240 |
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