Compare Qwen3.6 Plus from Qwen and Qwen3.8 Max Preview 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.
Qwen3.6 PlusQwen3.8 Max PreviewQwen 3.6, the native vision-language Plus series model, demonstrates outstanding performance comparable to the current top cutting-edge models, with a significant improvement over the 3.5 series. The model's capabilities have been markedly enhanced in Agentic coding, front-end programming, Vibe coding and other coding abilities, universal multimodal recognition, OCR, object localization, and more.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus: $1.69/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Qwen3.6 Plus: 1495 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3.6 Plus: 2.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Qwen3.6 Plus accepts 991,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Qwen3.6 Plus and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s and Qwen3.6 Plus at 43.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Qwen3.6 Plus accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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