Qwen3.6-Flash
Legacy · availableA Qwen model with a 1M-token context window, image input and tool calling. On the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API since April 17, 2026.
Access details: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API
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qwen3.6-flashCapabilities & limits
- Context window
- 1M
- Maximum output
- 64K
- Image input
- Supported
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Structured output
- Supported
Pricing
USD / 1M tokens- Input
- $0.25
- Output
- $1.50
Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Qwen's pricing page.
Full rate card 4 rates
All prices in USD.
Input tokens
$0.25 per 1M tokens- input 0 to 256K tokens per request
Output tokens
$1.50 per 1M tokens- input 0 to 256K tokens per request
- non-thinking and thinking modes
Input tokens
$1.00 per 1M tokens- input 256K to 1M tokens per request
Output tokens
$4.00 per 1M tokens- input 256K to 1M tokens per request
- non-thinking and thinking modes
USD, International deployment scope (Singapore region) on the international pricing page. Standard prices; the page notes limited-time promotions are excluded. Context-cache and explicit-cache rates are described on a separate page and were not captured; where the page flags a 50% batch discount it is noted here. Rates for other regions (China, Germany, US, Japan, Hong Kong) are not captured. Pricing page: currently equivalent to qwen3.6-flash-2026-04-16; 50% batch discount.
Price history
Input $0.25 per million tokens
Output $1.50 per million tokens
Technical details
- Input modalities
- Text, image, video
- Output modalities
- Text
From Qwen
Official announcement ↗How they describe it
a sparse yet remarkably capable mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 35 billion total parameters and only 3 billion active parameters
Release & lifecycle
- First available
- Apr 17, 2026
- legacy
- As of Oct 1, 2026