Qwen3.6-Flash

Name: Qwen3.6-Flash
Author: Alibaba

Released

2026-04-16

Last refreshed

2026-10-09

Status

Researched 137d ago

Open sourceCommercial use: permittedMultimodalLong contextVision

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Specifications

Family: Qwen3.6
Released: 2026-04-16
Context: 1M
Openness: Open source
License: Apache 2.0OSI-approvedPermitted
Weights: Unknown
Code: Unknown

Created by

Alibaba

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

Providers(2)

Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS OpenRouter

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Links

Website

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.

Providers(2)

Compare all 2

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

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
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.

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.

Benchmark	Score	Version	Evaluation	Source
Google-Proof Q&A	83.3	diamondObserved 2026-08-07	Configuration: qwen3.6-flash (single reported configuration) Harness: Epoch AI Inspect harness (GPQA Diamond, 198 Q) Evaluator: Epoch AI Confidence: confirmed Notes: Epoch AI-run evaluation (evaluator of record), from Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub data download https://epoch.ai/data/benchmark_data.zip (file gpqa_diamond.csv, row 'qwen3.6-flash', run started 2026-08-07). Epoch data is CC BY 4.0: credit 'Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Highest-scoring Epoch configuration for this model selected; other configurations exist in the same file. Discovered via Benchmark Heaven (lead only).	Source