Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free)
Qwen · text → text
This model has been removed from the platform.
Input$0 /M
Output$0 /M
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Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) 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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Qwen3.8 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 Plus Preview (free)
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0
$1.69
Output /M
$0
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
65,535
131,072
Time to First Token
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12.5 s
Throughput
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28.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkinglong context
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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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
qwen3.6-plus-preview-freeqwen3.8-max
1380142014601500
Overall
14441482
Coding
14931493
Math
14571457
Hard prompts
14661466
Instruction following
14381438
Multi-turn
14411441
Creative writing
14061406
Longer query
14541454
Chinese
14881488
English
14571457
WebDev Arena
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1420150015801660
Overall
14631672
React
14571457
HTML
14681468
Gaming
14711471
Simulations
14751475
Data analytics
14441444
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.
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free)
$0.00 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
How large is each context window?
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,535 tokens on Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) accepts text input and supports thinking and long context; 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 Plus Preview (free) 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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