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Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and...

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Updated 6 h ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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Overview

Identity

Canonical model
Yesidentity confidence: mediumOne row per real model release. Artifacts (checkpoints, quantisations, conversions) and folded evaluation variants point here.
Official checkpoints
None recorded — closed weightsofficial_checkpoints = hf_repo identifiers carried by the model itself; artifacts are separate entities pointing here through canonical_id.
Artifacts
None recordedSeparate entities (checkpoint · quantization · conversion · packaging) pointing to this model through canonical_id.
Provider deployments
1
API aliases
qwen/qwen3.6-max-previewqwen3-6-maxIdentifiers under which providers and evaluators refer to this model.
Folded evaluation variants
0Effort / thinking variants (…-high, …-non-reasoning) are result configurations of this model, not separate models. Their old URLs redirect here.

Openness

Closed / proprietary— weights not available; 7 dimensions unknown.

Weights are not available; the model is reachable only through an API or a product.

  • Weights

    No

  • Inference code

    —

  • Training code

    —

  • Training data

    —

  • Dataset

    —

  • Commercial use

    —

  • Redistribution

    —

  • Derivatives

    —

dimensions marked null are unknown, not false

Key facts

Release date

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 16 h agomedium

Status

Source:Artificial AnalysisT2observed 14 h agomedium

Openrouter id

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 16 h agomedium

Architecture

Tokenizer

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 16 h agomedium

Capabilities

Modalities

Modalities
text
Input
text
Output
text

Capabilities

  • Tool calling

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Structured output

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Reasoning

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Vision

    Unavailable

  • Audio

    Unavailable

  • Fine-tuning available

    Unavailable

Context window

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Max output

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 16 h agomedium

Tokenizer

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 16 h agomedium

Benchmarks12

Compare with another model →

Comparable same task and conditions · Partially comparable same task, conditions differ (effort, temperature, judge) · Not comparable different variant or metric

Benchmark results grouped by comparability group
Benchmark · groupBest scoreTrustConfigurationResultsvs leaderEvaluatedSource
Terminal-Benchagentic · accuracy · variant=hard · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisvarianthardreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−22.0 ptvs gpt-5.6-solobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
τ²-benchagentic · pass^1 · variant=Telecom · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial AnalysisvariantTelecomreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable1non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
τ²-benchagentic · pass^1 · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysis1−3.21 ptvs Z.ai GLM 5.2obs. 11 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexcomposite · indexIndependentreasoningonversion4.3conditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−25.0vs Claude Fable 5.1obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
IFBenchinstruction-following · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−6.73 ptvs Grok 4.3obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Humanity's Last Examknowledge · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−28.3 ptvs Claude Fable 5.1obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
GPQA Diamondreasoning · accuracy · variant=Diamond · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial AnalysisvariantDiamondreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable1non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
GPQA Diamondreasoning · accuracy · variant=GPQA Diamond · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial AnalysisvariantGPQA Diamond1−7.47 ptvs gpt-6-astraobs. 11 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2

Current rows only, grouped by benchmark → canonical metric → comparability group (task configuration). Effort variants folded into this model appear as rows of the same group. 12 current rows in total. “vs leader” compares with the current leader of the benchmark's primary group only; other groups are not directly comparable. Comparability rules →

Providers & Pricing1

All offers in the price terminal →
Provider deployments, cheapest output first
ProviderContextInput / 1MCache writeOutput / 1MStatusObservedSource
OpenRoutercheapest outputqwen/qwen3.6-max-preview262.1Kout 65.5K$1.28active16 min agosince 11 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2

USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider; native units (per-request fees, flex/priority tiers) are kept verbatim. Rows are append-only — every price change is kept in the history below. Cost of a workload →

Price history

Step lines per provider; amber markers are recorded changes. Click a marker or a row for the evidence behind that price.

Output price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Output price history of Qwen3.6 Max Preview$0$2$4$6$8Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26OpenRouter: first observed → $6.16 · 11 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $6.1611 Sept 2026

Input price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Input price history of Qwen3.6 Max Preview$0$0.20$0.40$0.60$0.80$1$1.2Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26OpenRouter: first observed → $1.03 · 11 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $1.0311 Sept 2026

Versions & Artifacts0

Version history

Context window2 changes

11 Sept 2026→11 Sept 2026→12 Sept 2026current

Max outputfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Opennessfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Statusfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Each hop is a claim: click a value for its source, tier and observation time. Nothing is overwritten — a new observation closes the previous claim.

Artifacts 0

No artifact (checkpoint, quantisation, conversion or packaging) points to this model yet.

Timeline7

Full timeline →

Change history24

Temporal, append-only claims: a new observation closes the previous claim instead of overwriting it. Rewind the record with the as-of picker.

Viewing AI Atlas as of 14 Jun 2026 — attributes exactly as the atlas knew them on that day; later corrections are not shown.

Back to today →

Qwen3.6 Max Preview was not yet in AI Atlas on 14 Jun 2026

First seen 11 Sept 2026. Nothing is inferred backwards: no attribute is shown for dates before the first observation.
24 claims · 21 properties

Release daterelease_date1

Claim history for Release date
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
27 Apr 2026 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Statusstatus1

Claim history for Status
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
deprecated → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Opennessopenness1

Claim history for Openness
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
proprietary → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Context windowcontext_length3

Claim history for Context window
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
262.1K tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic
256K tokens → supersededArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
262.1K tokens → supersededOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Max outputmax_output_tokens1

Claim history for Max output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
65.5K tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Modalitiesmodalities1

Claim history for Modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Input modalitiesmodalities_input1

Claim history for Input modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Output modalitiesmodalities_output1

Claim history for Output modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Tokenizertokenizer1

Claim history for Tokenizer
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Qwen → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Aa context windowaa_context_window1

Claim history for Aa context window
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
256,000 tokens → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Aa deprecatedaa_deprecated1

Claim history for Aa deprecated
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Aa opennessaa_openness1

Claim history for Aa openness
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
proprietary → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Descriptiondescription1

Claim history for Description
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and... → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Aa median output tokens per secondmetric.aa_median_output_tokens_per_second2

Claim history for Aa median output tokens per second
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
60.4 → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
60.6 → supersededArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Openrouter idopenrouter_id1

Claim history for Openrouter id
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Openrouter listed atopenrouter_listed_at1

Claim history for Openrouter listed at
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
27 Apr 2026 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Reasoningreasoning1

Claim history for Reasoning
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Structured outputstructured_output1

Claim history for Structured output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Supported parameterssupported_parameters1

Claim history for Supported parameters
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Tool callingtool_calling1

Claim history for Tool calling
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Weights availableweights_available1

Claim history for Weights available
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
No → currentcurrentAI Atlas curated registry (YAML, versioned in git, every entry carries its source URL)T2highderived

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

Provenance

Attributed facts

22

Source tiers

T222

Freshest observation

6 h ago

Conflicts

None

Source documents 2

Source documents
SourceDocumentTypeTierLast observedSnapshots
OpenRouter public model & pricing listingopenrouter.ai/api/v1/models catalogueT2· Quality secondary16 min ago12
Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models leaderboardT2· Quality secondary6 h ago2

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.

Data quality (60/100) measures how well AI Atlas knows this entity — completeness, primary-source ratio, freshness, conflicts — never how good the model is. Methodology →