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Qwen3.6 PlusOPEN
Qwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance inference.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $0.74 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 26% of the 200 open-weight models tracked here
- 32 of 43 Alibaba models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Qwen3.6 Plus, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
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 daily, 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.
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 27.8%, Long Context Reasoning 78.3%, IFBench 75.2%, τ²-Bench 97.7%, τ-Bench Banking 20.8%, Terminal-Bench 61.4%, Terminal-Bench Hard 43.9%. It is particularly used for code generation.
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.