Qwen · Balanced

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Added Apr 20, 2026

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is Alibaba's flagship Qwen 3.6 model for complex tasks. It supports both thinking and non-thinking modes in a single model id.

Input: Text
Output: Text
Discovery tier: Balanced

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens

Input: $1.04
Output: $6.24

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window: 245.8K
Max output: 65.5K

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Limits
	Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwenThis model	Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23QwenRemove
Provider	Qwen	Qwen
Discovery tier	Balanced	Balanced
Added	Apr 20, 2026	Jan 26, 2026
Context window	245.76K	256KBest
Max output	65.54KBest	32.77K
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input	$1.04Best	$1.20
Output	$6.24	$6.00Best
Capabilities
Reasoning effort	—	—

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

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Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart

curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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