MODEL PROOF
Qwen3.6 Plus
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Base context tier shown; inspect the complete context ladder below.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 54.3 points · 26% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a further stored option with these losses: no video input
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,436.7 ± 4.12 · 48,062 votes
- Context window
- 1M
- Maximum output
- 65.54K
- Input modalities
- text, image, video
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.325 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.95 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
- Context tiers
- Tiered by context
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Alibaba: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.325/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.95/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | $0.406/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
The headline rate does not apply to a long-context workload.
Complete context ladder · 1 tier
| More than 256,000 tokens | $1.30/M in (4×) $3.90/M out Unknown/M cached input $1.63/M cache write |
|---|
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibabaalibaba Endpoint terms
| $0.325 | $1.95 | undeclared | 99.92% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1436.7default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Data visualisation #37 1236
- Websites #39 1248
- Code categories #39 1240
- SVG #39 1160
- Game development #41 1224
- 3D #41 1210
- UI components #42 1238
- ASCII art #55 1127
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 65K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
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...
Questions this page answers
What does Qwen3.6 Plus cost?
$0.325/M in, $1.95/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Qwen3.6 Plus have an independent quality score?
Qwen3.6 Plus has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Qwen3.6 Plus?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3.6 Plus?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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