qwen / text-generation API-only released 2026-04-02

Qwen3.6 Plus

Name: Qwen3.6 Plus
Price: 0.325 USD
Author: 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...

Input / 1M

$0.33

Output / 1M

$1.95

Context

AA Intelligence

Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + image + video → text View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24

$0.33

input / 1M

$1.95

output / 1M

—

cached input / 1M

$2.28

1M in + 1M out

Price tiers

Above 256K prompt tokens: input $1.30/M, output $3.90/M (4× base)

Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Providers: 1
Cheapest provider: Alibaba · $0.33 / $1.95
Best throughput: —
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic: 27 / 54.5 / —

✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✗ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)

Current: $0.33 input · $1.95 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index: 27
AA Coding Index: 54.5
AA Agentic Index: —

Design Arena

CategoryEloWin %Rank

3d 1203 50.5% #49

asciiart 1113 40.9% #57

codecategories 1236 50.1% #47

dataviz 1228 50.8% #47

gamedev 1212 48.5% #51

svg 1161 50.3% #41

uicomponent 1229 50.5% #49

website 1242 50.1% #49

Providers

1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics

Provider	Quant	Context	Input	Output	Uptime	Tok/s
Alibaba	unknown	1M	$0.33	$1.95	100%	—

Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation: qwen
Released on OpenRouter: 2026-04-02
Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input: text, image, video
Output: text
Tokenizer: Qwen3
Moderated by provider: No
OpenRouter id: qwen/qwen3.6-plus

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Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.