Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview

qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview · Alibaba (Qwen)Unmeasurable
Declared family
Qwen
Evidence confidence
Unknown
Declared tokenizer tag
Qwen
Entered catalogue
27 April 2026
Last tested
21 August 2026
Measurement
Unmeasurable: prompt caching corrupts its token accounting

Evidence stack

Signals of different kinds, weighed together
SignalResultReference
Tokenizer signatureNot measured
API surfaceNo other entry shares this exact contractapi_68bf35de
Context and output262,144 context · 65,536 max outputdeclared
Reasoning contractOptionaldeclared
Serving providers observedAlibabameasured 21 August 2026

The measured fingerprint

Marginal prompt-token cost of each test string, grouped by script
All 50 rows, 50 excluded as corrupt

English and whitespace

en-prosex
en-longx
spaces-20x
spaces-60x
tabs-20x
newlines-20x
mixed-wsx

Digits

digits-9x
digits-12x
digits-30x
digits-sepx
float-longx

CJK

zh-commonx
zh-longx
zh-rarex
ja-kanax
ja-kanjix
kox

Other scripts

rux
arx
hex
hix
thx
elx

Emoji

emoji-basicx
emoji-skinx
emoji-zwj-familyx
emoji-zwj-x3x
emoji-flagsx
emoji-profx

Rare Unicode

mathx
boxdrawx
combiningx
cjk-ext-bx
surrogatesx
zalgox
rtl-mixx

Code

py-codex
py-indentx
jsonx
htmlx
regexx
camelx
snakex

Repetition and encodings

rare-word-x5x
repeat-tokx
base64x
hexx
urlx
uuidx

An x marks a row excluded as corrupt (caching or provider interference detected during measurement). Overhead subtracted: 10 prompt tokens.

Declared record

What the catalogue claims about this model

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and...

Modalities
text->text
Declared tokenizer
Qwen
Prompt price
$1.03 / M tokens
Completion price
$6.16 / M tokens

Supported parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p

defaults: {}

Catalogue entry

History

Every observation, kept as taken
  • 27 April 2026Enters the OpenRouter catalogue declared as Qwen.
  • 21 August 2026Fingerprinted in the YFarmX catalogue sweep · 0 of 50 strings measured clean.

Cite this page as the evidence record for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview: the URL is stable, measurements are dated, and revisions append to the history above. Method: tokenizer fingerprinting, v1, 50 strings. The raw data behind every figure is on the data page.