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Qwen 3.6 Plus is Alibaba’s proprietary AI model, released Apr 1, 2026. It costs $0.33/M input and $1.95/M output tokens, and handles a 1M-token context window. Its strongest use case is agentic & tools, where it ranks in the 94th percentile of the models Model Beat tracks.

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.

Context
1M
Input
$0.33 / 1M
Output
$1.95 / 1M
Released
Apr 1, 2026
Modalities
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Strongest atAgentic & Tools top 6%Reasoning & Knowledge top 39%

Benchmarks

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

60.0
Intelligence Index
Epoch AI
60th percentile of tracked models
33.0
Coding Index
Epoch AI
33rd percentile of tracked models
94.0
Agentic Index
Epoch AI
94th percentile of tracked models

Reasoning

3 evals
GPQA Diamond87.4%

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

Humanity's Last Exam25.7%

Frontier of human expert knowledge

SimpleQA Verified49.1%

Factual accuracy & hallucination

Coding

3 evals
SciCode40.7%

Scientific research coding

SWE-bench Verified57.9%

Real GitHub issue resolution

WebDev Arena1460

Human-rated web development

Math

3 evals
AIME 2024/202590.6%

Olympiad-qualifier math

FrontierMath26.2%

Research-level math problems

FrontierMath Tier 48.3%

Hardest research math

Agentic & Tools

1 evals
τ²-bench97.7%

Tool-agent-user reliability

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Frequently asked questions

What is Qwen 3.6 Plus?

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.

Who created Qwen 3.6 Plus?

Qwen 3.6 Plus is an AI model developed by Alibaba, part of the Qwen family, released Apr 1, 2026.

How much does Qwen 3.6 Plus cost?

Qwen 3.6 Plus's list price from Alibaba is $0.33 per million input tokens and $1.95 per million output tokens.

What is Qwen 3.6 Plus's context window?

Qwen 3.6 Plus supports a context window of up to 1M tokens.

How does Qwen 3.6 Plus perform on benchmarks?

On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, Qwen 3.6 Plus scores 97.7% on τ²-bench, 49.1% on SimpleQA Verified, 87.4% on GPQA Diamond.

Is Qwen 3.6 Plus open source?

Qwen 3.6 Plus is a proprietary model (API access), available through its provider's API rather than as a downloadable open-weight model.

Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Jul 30, 2026.