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Qwen3.6 Max Preview pricing & price history

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Qwen3.6 Max Preview by Qwen (Alibaba) costs $1.03 per 1M input tokens and $6.16 per 1M output tokens, with a 262K token context window.

$1.03Input / 1M tokens
$6.16Output / 1M tokens
262KContext window
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Price history

$0.00$3.54$7.09 2026-09-24today input /1M output /1M

No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check hourly.

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About Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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...

FAQ

How much does Qwen3.6 Max Preview cost?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview by Qwen (Alibaba) costs $1.03 per 1M input tokens and $6.16 per 1M output tokens, with a 262K token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0051.

What is the context window of Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview supports up to 262,144 tokens of context and up to 65,536 output tokens per request.

Has Qwen3.6 Max Preview’s price changed?

No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.

Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview being deprecated?

No retirement date has been announced for Qwen3.6 Max Preview as of 2026-09-24.

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