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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview API Pricing
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview costs $1.03 per 1M input tokens and $6.16 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 262K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$1.03
Output / 1M tokens
$6.16
Context window
262K
Max output
66K
What would Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $32.86 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $102.70 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $215.67 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $53.40 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
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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