Qwen3.6-Flash
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
- Family
- Qwen3.6
- Released
- 2026-04-16
- Context
- 1m
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
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 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers 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
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.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Qwen3.6-Flash?
Qwen3.6-Flash has a context window of 1m tokens.
How much does Qwen3.6-Flash cost?
Qwen3.6-Flash pricing ranges from $0.1875/1M to $0.25/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Qwen3.6-Flash released?
Qwen3.6-Flash was released on 2026-04-16.
Which providers offer Qwen3.6-Flash?
Qwen3.6-Flash is available from 2 providers: Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS, OpenRouter.
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter