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...
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — Alibaba Qwen. Context window 262,144 tokens. API pricing (per 1M tokens): Input $1.027, Output $6.162. License: Open-Weights. LMArena 1,447. GPQA Diamond 87.4%.
| Provider | Alibaba Qwen |
|---|---|
| API model ID | qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview |
| Tier | Frontier |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 65,536 tokens |
| License | Open-Weights |
| API pricing (per 1M tokens) · Input | $1.027 |
| API pricing (per 1M tokens) · Output | $6.162 |
| LMArena | 1,447 (qwen3.6-max-preview) |
| GPQA Diamond | 87.4% |
LMArena (CC-BY 4.0, best reasoning setting, 2026-10-02) · GPQA Diamond: Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)
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