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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...

Modalities

TextImageVideoText

In / out price

$0.33 / $1.95 per 1M

Context

1M

Released

Apr 2, 2026

Why use Qwen3.6 Plus

  • Understands images
  • Step-by-step reasoning mode
  • Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
  • Structured (JSON) outputs
  • Very long context: whole books or codebases in one prompt

Pricing

Input$0.33 / 1M tokens
Output$1.95 / 1M tokens
Cache write$0.41 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Coding index54.5

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

ModelPer runPer monthPer 1,000 runs
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus$0.0042$4.16$4.16

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

  • Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

1,000,000 tokens ≈ 1,504 pages

Fits: uses 12% of the window (room for 8× this much).

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