Qwen3.6 Max Preview API Pricing
Retired October 10, 2026: Alibaba took qwen3.6-max-preview offline on that date, and calls to it now fail; the model is gone from Alibaba's pricing page. Alibaba recommends Qwen3.7 Max instead. Qwen3.6 Max Preview is an Alibaba Qwen3.6 text/coding model. Alibaba publishes the official Singapore/International row directly in US dollars: $1.3/M input and $7.8/M output for prompts up to 128K tokens.
Qwen3.6 Max Preview API cost calculator.
Live calculator pre-loaded with the verified Qwen3.6 Max Preview International base row. The 128K-256K long-context row is $2/M input and $12/M output.
Qwen3.6 Max Preview cost on real workloads.
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Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 Max Preview Current | $1.30 | $7.80 | $1.82 agentic 92/8 | 256K | Preview Qwen Max workloads |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.496 −3.7× · promo | 1M | balanced |
| Qwen3.7 Max | $2.50 | $7.50 | $2.90 +59% | 1M | frontier |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct | $0.15 | $1.20 | $0.234 retired | 262K | text |
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | $0.15 | $1.20 | $0.234 retired | 262K | reasoning |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | $0.20 | $0.80 | $0.248 retired | 262K | text |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.006 | $1.20 | $0.15 −12× | 1M | budget |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1.00 cache $0.05 | $5.00 | $0.645 −2.8× | 1.05M | OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier |
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview API pricing FAQ.
Short answers for teams evaluating Qwen3.6 Max Preview against other Qwen tiers.
Q · 01 When did Qwen3.6 Max Preview stop working? +
qwen3.6-max-preview would go offline on October 10, 2026 (00:00, UTC+8) in the Beijing and Singapore regions, and it has: on October 21, 2026 the model is no longer on Alibaba's pricing page, and calls to it fail. Its notice recommends Qwen3.7 Max. The rates on this page are the last Alibaba published.Q · 02 What is the Qwen3.6 Max Preview input price? +
$1.3/M for input tokens up to 128K in the Singapore/International row. That row is published in US dollars, so nothing is converted.Q · 03 What is the Qwen3.6 Max Preview output price? +
$7.8/M. Output on the 128K-256K row is higher, at $12/M.