Qwen3.6 Plus
by Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen/qwen3.6-plus · #153 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
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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Pricing
Input
$0.325
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.95
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.731
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
—
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
$0.406
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Qwen3.6 Plus (no cache-read rate published — hits billed as normal input).
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.731 | $0.0351 | — |
| 50% | $0.731 | $0.0351 | −0% |
| 90% | $0.731 | $0.0351 | −0% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.000747 | $0.7475 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.00455 | $4.55 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0136 | $13.65 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.0585 | $58.50 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
39.6
AA composite quality
Coding Index
54.5
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
27.6
Output speed
52 tok/s
median
Time to first token
1.73s
median
Time to first answer
107.62s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 25.7% |
| SciCode | 40.7% |
| IFBench | 75.2% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 69.7% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 43.9% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 61.4% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 97.7% |
| τ³-Bench Banking | 16.5% |
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,247 |
| UI components | 1,271 |
| Data viz | 1,255 |
| SVG | 1,207 |
| 3D | 1,254 |
| Game dev | 1,262 |
| Code categories | 1,257 |
| ASCII art | 1,165 |
Specs
Context window
1M
tokens
Max output
66K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image, video
Tokenizer
Qwen3