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Alibaba: Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)

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Qwen 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.

Context
262K
Input
$1.03 / 1M
Output
$6.16 / 1M
Released
Apr 20, 2026
Modalities
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Strongest atAgentic & Tools top 12%Reasoning & Knowledge top 30%Coding top 34%

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.

67.0
Intelligence Index
Epoch AI
67th percentile of tracked models
66.0
Coding Index
Epoch AI
66th percentile of tracked models
88.0
Agentic Index
Epoch AI
88th percentile of tracked models

Reasoning

4 evals
GPQA Diamond89.1%

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

Humanity's Last Exam28.9%

Frontier of human expert knowledge

SimpleBench63.0%

Common-sense trick questions

SimpleQA Verified56.9%

Factual accuracy & hallucination

Coding

3 evals
SciCode46.9%

Scientific research coding

SWE-bench Verified76.7%

Real GitHub issue resolution

WebDev Arena1486

Human-rated web development

Math

3 evals
AIME 2024/202591.1%

Olympiad-qualifier math

FrontierMath23.1%

Research-level math problems

FrontierMath Tier 44.2%

Hardest research math

Agentic & Tools

1 evals
τ²-bench95.9%

Tool-agent-user reliability

In the news

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Changelog

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  • Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview): vendor list price cut from $1.04 to $1.027 per 1M input tokens (-1%)list price · Jul 30, 2026
  • Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview): vendor list price cut from $6.24 to $6.162 per 1M output tokens (-1%)list price · Jul 30, 2026

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Frequently asked questions

What is Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)?

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.

Who created Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)?

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) is an AI model developed by Alibaba, part of the Qwen family, released Apr 20, 2026.

How much does Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) cost?

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)'s list price from Alibaba is $1.03 per million input tokens and $6.16 per million output tokens.

What is Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)'s context window?

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) supports a context window of up to 262K tokens.

How does Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) perform on benchmarks?

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.