Qwen3.6 Max Preview API Benchmarks, Pricing & Provider Data
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview benchmark, API pricing, and provider data cover 40 API providers, with prices starting at $0.616/M.
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 cod...
Category Performance
Observed-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.
- Coverage
- 6 / 8
- Methodology
- V3.0
#1Reasoning55.5Estimated2/4 Measured dimensions
#2Knowledge55.1Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
#3Instruction following54.9Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
#4Agents53.7Estimated2/4 Measured dimensions
#5Coding51.6RatedGlobal rank #233/4 Measured dimensions
#6Math50.6Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
Specifications
Input and output token limits for this model, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
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Detailed scores
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Overall score59.0#44 / 100
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Input price$1.30/M#129 / 180Output price$7.80/M#133 / 180
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Agents
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Score53.780% interval41.8–65.52/4 Measured dimensionsAgentic score57.6#40 / 69Terminal-Bench 2.065.4#24 / 53
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Coding
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Score51.6#2380% interval42.7–60.53/4 Measured dimensionsSciCode46.9%#37 / 204Coding score51.8#56 / 81
Coding
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Reasoning
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Score55.580% interval44.7–66.22/4 Measured dimensionsGPQA88.8%#41 / 211HLE30.8%#47 / 208
Reasoning
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Knowledge
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Score55.180% interval38.8–71.41/4 Measured dimensionsKnowledge score68.7#37 / 69SuperGPQA73.9#3 / 16
Knowledge
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Math
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Score50.680% interval34.5–66.71/4 Measured dimensionsMath score41.6#41 / 62FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)23.1#25 / 47
Math
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Multilingual
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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
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Multimodal
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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Multimodal
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Instruction following
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Score54.980% interval38.9–70.91/4 Measured dimensionsAA-IFBench76.6#9 / 84
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OpenRouter endpoints
1 endpointsThird-party OpenRouter endpoint data, shown separately from LMSpeed measurements. Some 30-minute live performance fields only appear after syncing with an OpenRouter API key.
| Provider endpoint | Input | Output | 1d uptime | 30m latency | 30m throughput | Context / output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alibaba alibaba | $1.03/M | $6.16/M | 100% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Pricing Comparison
Compare Qwen3.6 Max Preview API pricing across 40 providers. Prices range from $0.616/M to $95.45/M. Zhongzhuan Chat offers the lowest rate at $0.616/M.
| Provider | Health | Model Variant | Group | Input ($/M) | Output ($/M) | Speed (t/s) | First token | Audit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L1 100% | qwen3.6-max-preview | bailian | -51%$0.643/M Cache read$0.064/M | -51%$3.86/M | — | — | — | |
L1 99% | qwen3.6-max-preview | ALIYUN | -44%$0.726/M | -44%$4.34/M | — | — | — | |
L1 99% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | $36.71/M | $36.71/M | — | — | — | |
L1 99% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | -5%$1.23/M | -5%$7.40/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | -24%$0.986/M | -24%$5.92/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | qwen3.6-max-preview | qwen-new-cc | $2.05/M Cache read$0.411/MCache write$2.05/MCache write 1h$3.29/M | $12.33/M | — | — | — | |
L1 99% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | -12%$1.15/M | -12%$6.88/M | — | — | — | |
L1 99% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | -12%$1.15/M | -12%$6.88/M | — | — | — | |
L1 92% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | $71.92/M | $71.92/M | — | — | — | |
L1 53% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | $9.00/M | $54.00/M | — | — | — | |
L1 43% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | -2%$1.27/M Cache read$0.127/MCache write$1.58/MCache write 1h$2.54/M | -2%$7.61/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | qwen3.6-max-preview | default | -53%$0.616/M | -53%$3.70/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | qwen3.6-max-preview | 国模分组 | $10.27/M | $10.27/M | — | — | — | |
L1 100% | qwen3.6-max-preview | 阿里云Qwen-openai | $48.75/M | $48.75/M | — | — | — |
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What benchmark data does Qwen3.6 Max Preview include?
- LMSpeed shows Qwen3.6 Max Preview benchmark context, API price, output speed, first-token latency, and provider data across 40 providers when those signals are available.
- What is the Qwen3.6 Max Preview API price?
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview has pricing from 40 providers, ranging from $0.616/M to $95.45/M. Zhongzhuan Chat has the lowest listed price.
- What does the Qwen3.6 Max Preview API pricing table include?
- The Qwen3.6 Max Preview API pricing table compares 40 providers by input price, output price, free tier status, speed, first-token latency, and recent health data when available.
- Which provider has the cheapest Qwen3.6 Max Preview API pricing?
- Zhongzhuan Chat currently has the lowest listed Qwen3.6 Max Preview price at $0.616/M across 40 providers.
- Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview API free?
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview does not currently have a free API tier on LMSpeed. All 40 providers charge per token.