Qwen3.6 Plus
Qwen · released Apr 2, 2026
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we have no record of published weights
Our take
Written Sep 30, 2026Qwen3.6 Plus is a hosted model with no download, so using it means choosing a host. Its measured results sit mid-field on general chat and creative writing, with competition-style maths as its strongest showing and agentic coding as its weakest.
Reach for it on maths-heavy work, where its best measured result is on competition and olympiad problems, or on set-piece code generation and completion. It also takes images and video alongside the question, and its request capacity leaves room for a long report without splitting it up first. Skip it if you need an agent to carry out multi-step work in a harness, or if you need a model you can download and run yourself.
The case for it
- Its best measured result is on competition-style maths: 83.72% on LiveBench Mathematics, which covers olympiad problems rather than applied arithmetic.
- Solid on set-piece code generation, at 78.18% on LiveBench Coding, which covers writing and completing code rather than fixing issues in an existing project.
- Images and video go into the same request as the text, so a screenshot or a clip does not have to be described in words first.
- A long report or a stack of documents fits beside the question, though reliable recall across all of it is unverified in our data.
The case against it
- Agentic coding is its weakest measured area: 41.36% on LiveBench Agentic Coding, run inside an agent harness, so multi-step work in a harness is where it trails.
- Instruction following sits near the bottom of its field, at 58.34% on LiveBench Instruction Following, which covers constrained-rewriting tasks.
- We list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host, and both listed offers carry the same rate.
How good is it?
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Arena Text (overall)54th of 168 · 1443
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding55th of 168 · 1496
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent. It is on LiveBench Agentic Coding, in 52nd of 58 with 41.36.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Arena Creative Writing59th of 168 · 1407
Boards this model appears on that none of the ratings above are built on.
Every published score for this model15 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 15 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 4 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.33 in / $1.95 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- ~39 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.33 / $1.95checked 4 hours ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Alibaba CloudThrough OpenRouter | $0.33 / $1.95checked 4 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 39 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
OpenRouterAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alibaba CloudThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 2 of 2 listings say yes. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.
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Recent changes
What moved
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What we do not know about this model yet
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images and video in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- qwen-qwen3-6-plus