Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #13 of 561 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.325 input and $1.95 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers an exceptionally large context window suited to long-document workflows and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3.6 Plus from Qwen pairs world-class agentic performance with a 1M token context, multimodal input, strong instruction following, and competitive pricing.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
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Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3.6-plus
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | April 2, 2026 |
| Context Length | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 65,536 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.33 | $0.000325 |
| Output | $1.95 | $0.001950 |
Live Performance
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