Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

qwen · Released Apr 2, 2026 Frontier New Best for Agents
85.3
Our Score

Performance Profile

Intelligence8.5Technical8.3Value7.8Content8.3
Intelligence 8.5/10
Technical 8.3/10
Content 8.3/10
Value 7.8/10

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..

$0.33 / 1M
Input Price
$1.95 / 1M
Output Price
1M tokens
Context Window
65,536 tokens
Max Output

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Architecture

ModalityText + Image + Video → Text
TokenizerQwen3

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

50 Intelligence Index
42.9 Coding Index
70.8 Agentic Index

This model was released recently. Independent benchmark evaluations are typically completed within days of release — these figures are preliminary and are likely to be updated as testing is finalised.

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 88.2% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 25.7% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 40.7% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 43.9% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 97.7% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 75.2% Instruction following
LCR 69.7% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID qwen/qwen3.6-plus
Providerqwen
Release Date April 2, 2026
Context Length1,000,000 tokens
Max Completion65,536 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

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

100%
Avg Uptime
771ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
31 tok/s
Best Throughput
1/1
Active Endpoints
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