Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Alibaba Qwen chatcodereasoningtool_use Long

API ID: qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview-20260420

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Input Price
$1.03
/1M tokens
Output Price
$6.16
/1M tokens

About Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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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Price Ranking
#1093 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
262k
Max Output
66k
Release Date
2026-04-27
Capabilities
chat code reasoning tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$2.31
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$19.72
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$70.86
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$97.05
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Qwen3.6 Max Preview 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-max-preview-20260420",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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