LLM Reference

Qwen3.6-Flash

Released
2026-04-16
Last refreshed
2026-06-04
Status
Researched 2d ago
Open SourceCommercial use allowedMultimodalLong contextVision

Qwen3.6-Flash is worth evaluating for long context and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating long context and vision
  • Workloads that can use a 1m context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Qwen3.6
Released
2026-04-16
Context
1m
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0(OSI)Commercial use allowed
Created by

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$1.13
Input / 1M
$0.1875

Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter

About

Qwen3.6-Flash is a native vision-language Flash model delivering a significant performance boost over Qwen3.5-Flash, with particular excellence in agentic coding capabilities and substantially improved spatial intelligence. Vision enhancements include notably better object localization and object detection.

Qwen3.6-Flash is an open-source model in the Qwen3.6 family. The structured metadata tracks a 1m-token context window and multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS and OpenRouter, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.1875 input and $1.125 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Qwen3.6-Flash yet.

Top use-case fit

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenRouter$0.1875$1.13
Serverless
Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS$0.250$1.50
Serverless

Capabilities

VisionMultimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Long context

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.