Qwen3.6 Flash

Alibaba Qwen chatcodereasoningtool_usevideovision Long

API ID: qwen/qwen3.6-flash

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Input Price
$0.19
/1M tokens
Output Price
$1.13
/1M tokens

About Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series. It supports text, image, and video input with a 1M token context window. Tiered pricing kicks in...

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Price Ranking
#871 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
1.0M
Max Output
66k
Release Date
2026-04-27
Capabilities
chat code reasoning tool_use video vision
Input Modalities
textimagevideo
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.42
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$3.60
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$12.94
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$17.72
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Qwen3.6 Flash API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3.6-flash",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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