Qwen3.6 Plus: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3.6 Plus is a text model by Alibaba. 22 providers serve it, from $1.37 to $3.75 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.
A newer version is out: Qwen3.7 Plus
How Qwen3.6 Plus compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.37 /1M against a median of $1.10; 56% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 1M-token context window is larger than 67% of them (median 262K), about 1500 pages of text.
- On LMArena's WebDev board it ranks #54 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
- 22 providers serve it; 89% of comparable models have fewer.
Qwen3.6 Plus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Together AI | — | $0.50/video | — | — |
| APIMart | $0.229/1M | $1.37/1M | — | — |
 AlibabaOfficial | $0.276/1M | From$1.65/1M | — | — |
 OrcaRouter | $0.276/1M | From$1.65/1M | — | 1.05M |
 AIHubMix | $0.282/1M | From$1.69/1M | $0.028/1M | 1M |
 APIYI | $0.30/1M | $1.80/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $0.30/1M | $1.80/1M | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $0.30/1M | $1.80/1M | — | — |
 CrossModel | $0.32/1M | From$1.88/1M | $0.032/1M | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.325/1M | From$1.95/1M | — | 1M |
| Atlas Cloud | $0.325/1M | $1.95/1M | $0.032/1M | — |
 CometAPI | $0.40/1M | $2.40/1M | — | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.40/1M | $2.40/1M | — | — |
| AlibabaOfficial | $0.50/1M | From$3/1M | — | — |
| ZenMux | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | $0.05/1M | 1M |
 Requesty | $0.50/1M | From$3/1M | $0.05/1M | 1M |
 Ofox | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | $0.05/1M | 1M |
| OpenCode | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | $0.05/1M | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.50/1M | $3/1M | $0.05/1M | 1M |
 EmpirioLabs AI | $0.50/1M | From$3/1M | $0.50/1M | 1M |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.50/1M | From$3/1M | $0.05/1M | — |
 Venice AI | $0.625/1M | $3.75/1M | $0.063/1M | — |
- APIMart$1.37
- AlibabaOfficialFrom$1.65
- OrcaRouterFrom$1.65
- AIHubMixFrom$1.69
- APIYI$1.80
- LaoZhang API$1.80
- CrazyRouter$1.80
- CrossModelFrom$1.88
- Atlas Cloud$1.95
- OpenRouterFrom$1.95
- CometAPI$2.40
- AI/ML API$2.40
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1M≈ 1500 pages of text
- Max output
- 66K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Apr 2, 2026
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
- Arena score
- 1462WebDev
Alternatives to Qwen3.6 Plus
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 Plusthis model | $1.37/1M | 1M | 1462 | 22 |
 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 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $3/1M | 1.05M | 1585 | 30 |
 MiMo-V2.6-Pro | $0.696/1M | 1.05M | 1625 | 21 |
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APIMart, at $1.37 /1M. 22 providers serve Qwen3.6 Plus; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3.6 Plus reads up to 1M tokens per request and writes up to 66K.
No. Qwen3.6 Plus is only available through an API; Alibaba does not publish its weights.
22 API providers serve Qwen3.6 Plus. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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