Using Qwen3.6 Max Preview on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Qwen3.6 · Alibaba

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Qwen3.6 Max Preview through model ID alibaba/qwen-3.6-max-preview. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-06-29. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

1
Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
2
Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call alibaba/qwen-3.6-max-preview — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $1.30/1M input, $7.80/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

API Portal Documentation Pricing Model Card

Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY

Model ID

alibaba/qwen-3.6-max-preview

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen-3.6-max-preview",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Type	Price (per 1M)
Input tokens	$1.30
Output tokens	$7.80

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse MoE architecture, available for preview as part of the Qwen3.6 series.

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Model Specs

Released2026-04-20

Context256k

ArchitectureMixture of Experts

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