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# Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview: $1.03/M in, $6.16/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen · released 2026-04-27

 $2.31 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $1.03 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $6.16 /M |
| Cache write | $1.28 /M |

**Past 128,000 tokens the price changes.** Input goes to $1.58/M (1.54×) and output to $9.48/M. The headline rate does not apply to a long-context workload.

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 66K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and...