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Qwen3.6 Max Preview Pricing

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Input / 1M tokens

$1.03

Output / 1M tokens

$6.16

Context window

262,144 tokens

≈ 350 pages of text

Max output

65,536 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0037

1,000 requests / month$3.70/mo 10,000 requests / month$36.97/mo 100,000 requests / month$369.72/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Qwen3.6 Max Preview preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jun 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.

What it excels at

Supports 256k context and 64k output for long-document reasoning and code generation. Competitive multilingual and math performance at given price point.

The business tradeoff

Preview release may include unoptimized behavior or limited fine-tuning options. Output token cost is high relative to input; open-weights deployment adds hosting variability.

Cheaper from Qwen

Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical request Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen$0.0006/ typical request Qwen3.7 FlashQwen$0.0001/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

Claude Fable 5Anthropic$0.032/ typical request Grok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical request DeepSeek R1DeepSeek$0.0015/ typical request

Head-to-head

Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs Claude Fable 5 →Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs Grok 4.3 →Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs DeepSeek R1 →

Vendor list rates, as of Jul 29, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.