Qwen3.6 Plus API Pricing
Qwen3.6 Plus is an Alibaba Qwen3.6 text/coding model. Alibaba publishes the official Singapore/International row directly in US dollars: $0.5/M input and $3/M output for prompts up to 256K tokens.
Qwen3.6 Plus API cost calculator.
Live calculator pre-loaded with Qwen3.6 Plus's verified Alibaba International rates. Cache hits use Alibaba's published explicit-cache rule: 10% of standard input on a hit and 125% on creation, for blocks kept 5 minutes after the last hit.
Qwen3.6 Plus 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 Plus Current | $0.50 cache $0.05 | $3.00 | $0.381 agentic 92/8 | 1M | Balanced long-context Qwen agents |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.496 +30% · promo | 1M | balanced |
| Qwen3.7 Max | $2.50 | $7.50 | $2.90 +7.6× | 1M | frontier |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.006 | $1.20 | $0.15 −2.5× | 1M | budget |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1.00 cache $0.05 | $5.00 | $0.645 +69% | 1.05M | OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier |
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Qwen3.6 Plus API pricing FAQ.
Short answers for teams evaluating Qwen3.6 Plus against other Qwen tiers.
Q · 01 What is the Qwen3.6 Plus input price? +
$0.5/M for input tokens up to 256K in the Singapore/International row. That row is published in US dollars, so nothing is converted.Q · 02 What is the Qwen3.6 Plus output price? +
$3/M. Output on the 256K-1M row is higher, at $6/M.Q · 03 Does Alibaba list exact cache pricing? +
$0.05/M, 10% of standard input, and creating a cache block bills at $0.625/M, 125% of it. Blocks last 5 minutes and the timer resets on a hit. The model is not on the implicit-cache list, so nothing is discounted until you mark blocks yourself.