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Qwen3.6 Plus Pricing

Qwen · qwen-qwen3-6-plus

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.325

Output / 1M tokens

$1.95

Context window

1M tokens

≈ 1,333 pages of text

Max output

65,536 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0012

1,000 requests / month$1.17/mo 10,000 requests / month$11.70/mo 100,000 requests / month$117.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Qwen3.6 Plus 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

Handles extended context up to 1M tokens with strong multimodal input for document and image analysis. Supports large output volumes suitable for detailed generation tasks.

The business tradeoff

Open-weights deployment shifts infrastructure, latency, and throughput responsibility to the user. Output token pricing is substantially higher than input, affecting cost at scale.

Cheaper from Qwen

Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen$0.0006/ typical request Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ 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 Plus vs Claude Fable 5 →Qwen3.6 Plus vs Grok 4.3 →Qwen3.6 Plus vs DeepSeek R1 →

Vendor list rates, as of Jul 28, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.