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Qwen3.6 Plus

Alibaba·

LLMsflagshipcloud

Overview

Flagship cloud API model with a 1M-token context window and always-on chain-of-thought reasoning. Agentic coding focus.

Capabilities and innovations

1M context windowAlways-on chain-of-thoughtAgentic coding

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
GPQA Diamond88.2%independent
Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools)25.7%independent
SWE-bench Verified78.8%independent
MMLU-Pro87.67%unsourced
Terminal-Bench 2.x61.6%independent
  • SWE-bench Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • MMMU-Pro: not reported by the vendor

API pricing

$0.325 per million input tokens, $1.95 per million output tokens (USD, cheapest OpenRouter endpoint, checked 2026-06-08)

Reliability

Agentic tool use (τ-bench)
76.8% (higher is better)third party

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