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Qwen3.6 PlusOPEN
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Qwen3.6 Plus, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, Qwen3.6 Plus delivers 5.8 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
Qwen3.6 Plus is an open-weight AI model by Alibaba. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Qwen3.6 Plus?
Qwen3.6 Plus is an AI language model from Alibaba. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 39.6 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Qwen3.6 Plus free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Qwen3.6 Plus and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.33 per million input tokens and $1.95 per million output tokens.
What is Qwen3.6 Plus good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 88.2%, Humanity's Last Exam 25.7%, Long Context Reasoning 69.7%, SciCode 40.7%, IFBench 75.2%, τ²-Bench 97.7%, τ-Bench Banking 16.5%, Terminal-Bench 61.4%, Terminal-Bench Hard 43.9%. It is particularly used for code generation.
How fast is Qwen3.6 Plus?
It generates about 52.7 tokens per second, with a median 1.66s delay before the first token. Measured independently by Artificial Analysis.
Can I self-host Qwen3.6 Plus?
Yes. Qwen3.6 Plus has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
Depending on your workload, an open-weight model that you can self-host may cut costs dramatically or remove per-token pricing entirely. Our comparison pages put this model side by side with the strongest open-source contenders.