How much does Qwen3.6 Plus cost?

Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.33 per million input tokens and $1.95 per million output tokens on standard pricing. A workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month is about $16.

What is the context length of Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of input and can return up to 65,536 tokens in one response.

Does Qwen3.6 Plus support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes, Qwen3.6 Plus supports function/tool calling and structured (JSON) outputs. Supported tools: Function calling, Structured outputs, JSON mode, Reasoning, Log probabilities, Deterministic seed.

What inputs and outputs does Qwen3.6 Plus support?

Qwen3.6 Plus accepts Text, Image, Video as input and produces Text as output.

When was Qwen3.6 Plus released?

Qwen3.6 Plus was released by Qwen in 2026-04-02.

Qwen3.6 Plus

qwen3.6-plus

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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... Built by Qwen.

Prices updated recently

Input price

$0.33

per 1M tokens · Standard

Output price

$1.95

per 1M tokens · Standard

Input limit

tokens

Output limit

66K

tokens

Input formats

TextImageVideoAudioPDF

Output formats

TextImageVideoAudioPDF

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Qwen3.6 Plus price history

2 price records since 9/25/2026

Qwen3.6 Plus cost calculator

Input20M tokens

Output5M tokens

$16/month

Standard pricing

Overview

What is Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is a text & reasoning and vision model from Qwen. 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... Its 1M context window and $0.33 input price make it a candidate for quality-focused production applications.

Image understandingDocument analysisContent workflowsClassification

Benchmarks

Qwen3.6 Plus benchmarks & speed

How Qwen3.6 Plus scores on standardized evaluations, and where it lands among every model we track.

27.0

Intelligence Index

Better than 69% of 153 models

56tok/s

Output speed

Better than 17% of 119 models

1239

DesignArena Elo

Better than 55% of 81 models

Reasoning

GPQA Diamond

88.2%

Graduate-level scientific reasoning · top 32%

HLE

27.8%

Humanity's Last Exam · top 42%

Latency & design

Time to first token: 2.19s
DesignArena win rate: 50.4%
Design battles judged: 37,246

Independent scores from Artificial Analysis and DesignArena · updated 10/8/2026. Higher is better; ranks compare against every model we track with that score.

Rates

Qwen3.6 Plus pricing

Pricing is based on token usage. Provider-specific caching, batch, regional, and tool charges may affect the final cost.

Input · Standard

$0.33

Per 1M tokens

Cached input · Standard

Not available

No listed cached-input rate

Capabilities

Qwen3.6 Plus Tools

Tools available when using Qwen3.6 Plus through supported provider APIs.

Function calling

Supported

Structured outputs

Supported

JSON mode

Supported

Reasoning

Supported

Built-in web search

Not supported

Log probabilities

Supported

Deterministic seed

Supported

Parallel tool calls

Not supported

Prompt caching

Not supported

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

Measured results (AA Intelligence 27 · DesignArena Elo 1239) position it for demanding production work.
1M context supports large documents, repositories and extended conversations.
Supports text & reasoning and vision workloads in one model.

Limitations

Generated tokens cost 6× more than input tokens, which matters for verbose responses.
Large context capacity does not guarantee consistent retrieval across the entire prompt.
Arena Elo and MMLU-Pro are directional; test accuracy, latency and reliability on your own workload before committing.

Arena Elo, MMLU-Pro and pricing figures are illustrative; validate current vendor terms before purchase.

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