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Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Qwen3.6 Max Preview from Qwen and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen · text → text

The Max model Preview version, the largest and most capable model in the Qwen3.6 series, currently offers its pure-text model capabilities for trial. Compared with the previously released Qwen3-Max and Qwen3.6-Plus, this model further enhances vibe coding capabilities, executes coding agents more efficiently, significantly improves front-end programming and development capabilities, and further upgrades long-tail knowledge handling.

Input$1.268 /M
Output$7.608 /M
Cache read$0.1268 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$1.268
$1.69
Output /M
$7.608
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.1268
$0.169
Context length
262,144
1,000,000
Max output
65,536
131,072
Time to First Token
0.7 s
81.3 s
Throughput
185.4 tok/s
26.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
April 20, 2026
August 3, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
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1440146014801500
Overall
14611482
WebDev Arena
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14601520158016401700
Overall
14821672

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
$190 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Qwen3.6 Max Preview, Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; Qwen3.6 Max Preview: $7.608/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts 262,144 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Qwen3.6 Max Preview and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview at 185.4 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 26.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Qwen3.6 Max Preview and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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