Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
qwen/qwen3.6-max-previewAbout
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba built on a sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and long-context reasoning, with a 262K token context window. The model reports top scores across several coding benchmarks, including SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0, and SciCode, and an AA Intelligence Index score of 52. It includes an integrated thinking mode that preserves reasoning traces across multi-turn conversations and supports structured output and function calling. No open weights are provided.
Capabilities
- Context Length
- 262.1K
- Max Output
- 65.5K
- Reasoning
- Yes
- In
- text
- Out
- text
Benchmarks
View leaderboardReasoning & Knowledge
Coding & Agentic
Source: Artificial Analysis
Pricing
Full pricing| Type | ≤128K | >128K |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.30 | $2.00 |
| Output | $7.80 | $12.00 |
| Cache Write | $1.625 | $2.50 |
OpenAI-compatible · Model ID qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview
curl https://api.elliotgate.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-omg-your-api-key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
}'OFTEN COMPARED
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