Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is an Alibaba model. It was retired on 10 October 2026. Its last listed API price was $1.03 per million input tokens and $6.16 per million output tokens (third-party listing; not on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's pricing page). Its context window is 262.1K tokens. It ranks #61 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1460, read 1 Nov 2026). Source: alibabacloud.com.
Qwen3.6 Max Preview (qwen3.6-max-preview) was a preview model from Alibaba on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, with no published weights and a 262.1K-token context window. It was available via the API until 10 October 2026, the shutdown date in Alibaba's deprecation table, which names qwen3.7-max as the replacement. Third-party providers listed it at $1.03 per million input tokens and $6.16 per million output tokens; Model Studio's pricing page did not list it. 1460 Elo (rank 61)
Full Specifications
$1.03 / $6.16 per million tokens | |
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| Identity | |
| Developer | Alibaba |
| Retired | 10 October 2026 |
| Status | Retired. Alibaba's Model Studio deprecation table lists qwen3.6-max-preview for shutdown on 10 October 2026, replaced by qwen3.7-max. |
| Licence | Proprietary |
| Self-hostable | No |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $2.313 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $1.030 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $6.160 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 262.1K tokens |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1460 (checked Nov 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 61 |
| GPQA Diamond | 87 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 77 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 631 |