Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
alibaba/qwen3.6-plusQwen3.6 Plus is the Plus tier of Alibaba's Qwen3.6 series, a hosted native vision-language reasoning model released in April 2026. Alibaba reports marked gains over the Qwen3.5 series in agentic coding, front-end development and vibe coding, along with multimodal object recognition, OCR and object localization. Model Studio now lists it as a legacy model, with Qwen3.7 Plus as the recommended Plus-tier option, so it fits workloads already validated on this version.
- Input price
- $0.50USD / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $3.00USD / 1M tokens
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
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Specifications
Pricing
- Input
- $0.50 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $3 / 1M tokens
- Cache write
- $0.63 / 1M tokens
Context & modalities
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Input
- Text, image
- Output
- Text
Capabilities
- Chat
- Supported
- Vision
- Supported
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Structured output
- Supported
- Function calling
- Supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Model ID
- alibaba/qwen3.6-plus
- Execution
- sync
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Chat Completions API
- Endpoint
- /v1/chat/completions
Independent evaluations
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations, compared with other models on SandBase.
Metrics sourced from Artificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.3
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OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "alibaba/qwen3.6-plus",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello"
}
],
"max_tokens": 2048
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
Compare models
| Model | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3.6 PlusThis model Alibaba | 1M | $0.50 | $3.00 | Apr 2, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $4.00 | $12.00 | Sep 23, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | Sep 18, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Sep 3, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $0.50 | $3.00 | Aug 14, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Aug 12, 2026 |
Questions
FAQ
How do I call Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/qwen3.6-plus" to Chat Completions API (/v1/chat/completions) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
How much does Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus cost?
$0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, billed per request from your SandBase balance. Discounts, when available, are shown in the pricing on this page.
What is the context window of Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus?
1M tokens of context, with up to 65.5K output tokens per response.
How does Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus score on benchmarks?
Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus scores 27.0 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v4.3), ranking #48 of 87 models on SandBase; Coding Index 54.5. Source: Artificial Analysis, measured as Qwen3.6 Plus.
Which features does Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus support?
Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus supports vision (image input), reasoning, function calling, structured output. See Specifications above for the full list.
Do I need a separate Alibaba account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.