qwen/qwen3.6-max-previewQwen 3.6 Max (Preview) is Alibaba’s AI model, released Apr 20, 2026. It costs $1.03/M input and $6.16/M output tokens, and handles a 262K-token context window. Its strongest use case is agentic & tools, where it ranks in the 88th percentile of the models Model Beat tracks.
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.
Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
Frontier of human expert knowledge
Common-sense trick questions
Factual accuracy & hallucination
Scientific research coding
Real GitHub issue resolution
Human-rated web development
Olympiad-qualifier math
Research-level math problems
Hardest research math
Tool-agent-user reliability
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.
Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) is an AI model developed by Alibaba, part of the Qwen family, released Apr 20, 2026.
Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)'s list price from Alibaba is $1.03 per million input tokens and $6.16 per million output tokens.
Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) supports a context window of up to 262K tokens.
On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) scores 95.9% on τ²-bench, 56.9% on SimpleQA Verified, 1486 on WebDev Arena.
Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Jul 30, 2026.