Qwen3.6 Max Preview: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is a text model by Alibaba. 2 providers serve it, from $9.98 to $12 /1M; the lowest price is at CometAPI.
A newer version is out: Qwen3.8 Max Preview · released Aug 2, 2026
How Qwen3.6 Max Preview compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Pricey for its class: at $9.98 /1M, its lowest price is above 86% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 256K-token context window is larger than 38% of them (median 262K), about 380 pages of text.
- On LMArena's WebDev board it ranks #51 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
- 2 providers serve it; 36% of comparable models have fewer.
Qwen3.6 Max Preview 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.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 256K≈ 380 pages of text
- Max output
- 64K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling
- Released
- Apr 20, 2026
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Arena score
- 1482WebDev
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| Qwen3.6 Max Previewthis model | $9.98/1M | 256K | 1482 | 2 |
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The lowest price for Qwen3.6 Max Preview is $9.98 /1M, at CometAPI.
CometAPI, at $9.98 /1M. 2 providers serve Qwen3.6 Max Preview; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3.6 Max Preview reads up to 256K tokens per request and writes up to 64K.
We have not found Qwen3.6 Max Preview's weights published by its maker.
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