Qwen3.6 Flash: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3.6 Flash is a text model by Alibaba. 15 providers serve it, from $0.823 to $1.50 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.
A newer version is out: Qwen3.8 Flash · released Aug 26, 2026
How Qwen3.6 Flash compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.823 /1M against a median of $1.10; 46% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 1M-token context window is larger than 67% of them (median 262K), about 1500 pages of text.
- 15 providers serve it; 84% of comparable models have fewer.
Qwen3.6 Flash prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APIMart | $0.137/1M | $0.823/1M | — | — |
 AlibabaOfficial | $0.165/1M | From$0.99/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.169/1M | From$1.01/1M | $0.017/1M | 1M |
 APIYI | $0.17/1M | $1.02/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $0.171/1M | $1.03/1M | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.188/1M | From$1.13/1M | — | 1M |
 CrossModel | $0.19/1M | From$1.13/1M | $0.019/1M | — |
| AlibabaOfficial | $0.25/1M | From$1.50/1M | — | — |
 Ofox | $0.25/1M | $1.50/1M | $0.025/1M | 1M |
 OrcaRouter | $0.25/1M | $1.50/1M | — | 1.05M |
 Impossibl | $0.25/1M | From$1.50/1M | $0.05/1M | — |
 EmpirioLabs AI | $0.25/1M | From$1.50/1M | $0.25/1M | 1M |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.25/1M | From$1.50/1M | $0.05/1M | — |
| ZenMux | $0.25/1M | $1.50/1M | $0.025/1M | 1M |
| AI/ML API | $0.25/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — |
- APIMart$0.823
- AlibabaOfficialFrom$0.99
- AIHubMixFrom$1.01
- APIYI$1.02
- LaoZhang API$1.03
- OpenRouterFrom$1.13
- CrossModelFrom$1.13
- Ofox$1.50
- OrcaRouter$1.50
- ZenMux$1.50
- AI/ML API$1.50
- AlibabaOfficialFrom$1.50
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text, Video
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1M≈ 1500 pages of text
- Max output
- 66K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Feb 25, 2026
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
Alternatives to Qwen3.6 Flash
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 Flashthis model | $0.823/1M | 1M | — | 15 |
 GLM-5.3 | $1.10/1M | 1.05M | 1623 | 49 |
 Gemini 3 Flash | $2.40/1M | 1.05M | 1466 | 5 |
 Mistral Large 4 | $2.09/1M | 1.05M | 1543 | 13 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
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APIMart, at $0.823 /1M. 15 providers serve Qwen3.6 Flash; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3.6 Flash reads up to 1M tokens per request and writes up to 66K.
No. Qwen3.6 Flash is only available through an API; Alibaba does not publish its weights.
15 API providers serve Qwen3.6 Flash. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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