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Qwen3.6 Plus

BETTER VALUE OPTION

A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.

$0.731 / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

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 inputUnknown/M
Cache write$0.406/M
Cache write 1hUnknown/M
ReasoningUnknown/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.

SellerInputOutputPrecisionUptime (1d)
Alibabaalibaba
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
Unknown
Context limit
1,000,000 tokens
Output limit
65,536 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
None reported
Uptime · last 30 minutes
99.80%
$0.325 $1.95 undeclared 99.92%

Independent scores

LMArena Elo1436.7default

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 window1M
Max output65K
Input modestext, image, video
Tool useyes
Reasoningoptional
Open weightsUnknown

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-10-06
Quality dataverified

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...

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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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