Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Alibaba / Qwen🇨🇳 China
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Context window262K tokens
Input / 1M tokens$1.3
Output / 1M tokens$7.8

Pricing source: Alibaba Model Studio pricing, last listed July 2026, up to 128K.

Version History

3.6-max-previewsnapshot

Initial release of Qwen3.6 Max Preview, a proprietary 1 trillion parameter sparse MoE model with 262K context window and integrated thinking mode for agentic workflows.

Benchmark Scores

Full leaderboard →
1461 Elo
Arena Elo
LMArena, Oct 2026 ↗
44.2%
Hallucination Rate
Artificial Analysis, Aug 2026 ↗

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model release

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 1 Trillion Parameter MoE Model With 262K Context Window

Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen3.6 Max Preview, a proprietary frontier model built on sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. The model supports a 262,144-token context window and features integrated thinking mode for multi-turn reasoning, priced at $1.30 per million input tokens and $7.80 per million output tokens.

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