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Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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Qwen3.6 Max Preview is made by Qwen (Alibaba). We don't have enough test results yet to rank it. It's mid-priced to use.

Preview; benchmark table published only as an image (deltas vs Qwen3.6-Plus in text: SkillsBench +9.9, SciCode +6.3, NL2Repo +5.0, Terminal-Bench 2.0 +3.8). No numeric rows recorded. Context/max output from OpenRouter.

Writing & creativity
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Research & analysis
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Coding
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Price
Mid-priced$1.03 / $6.16
Price per 1M (blended)Blended / 1M
$2.31
MemoryContext
262K
Longest answerMax output
66K
Test resultsResults
5 (5 independent5 indep.)
Out sinceReleased
18 Apr 2026
Made byVendor
Qwen (Alibaba)
UnderstandsInputs
text

Scores are out of 100 for each area, compared with every model we track; “#” is its rank. Context is how much text it can read at once (1M is roughly 700,000 words). Blended price mixes the cost of what you send and what it writes back.

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No reasoningDefault

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OpenRouter is a service that gives access to many AI models in one place. This model is listed there as qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview.

Route it as qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview at $1.03 in / $6.16 out per 1M tokens, 262K context. Listed since 27 Apr 2026.

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LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark (Lech Mazur)-0.9DefaultQwen 3.6 Max PreviewIndependent testIndependentLech Mazur (LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark) ↗28 Sep 2026—rank 38/56; Thurstone comparison score (centered at 0); est. win chance 36%; 95% bootstrap -1.060 to -0.809
SimpleBench63.0%DefaultQwen 3.6 Max PreviewIndependent testIndependentSimpleBench ↗20 May 2026—AVG@5, temp 0.7; rank 25th; human baseline 83.7%; data https://simple-bench.com/static/js/leaderboard-data.js
SimpleQA Verified52.0%Defaultqwen3.6-max-previewIndependent testIndependentEpoch AI ↗27 Aug 2026—Epoch-run (no tools); ±1.58 stderr
SWE-bench Verified76.7%Defaultqwen3.6-max-previewIndependent testIndependentEpoch AI ↗28 May 2026—Epoch-run SWE-bench Verified (Epoch scaffold); no runs after 2026-06; stderr 1.9pt; data https://epoch.ai/data/benchmark_data.zip (swe_bench_verified.csv)
Vals CorpFin v266.5%Defaultvals id alibaba/qwen3.6-max-previewIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗12 Aug 2026—vals id alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview; rank 19/134; ±0.929 stderr; $0.156029/test