---
id: "qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview"
also: ["qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview-20260420"]
cheapest_list_usd_per_m: "1.027 in, 6.162 out, at alibaba on openrouter"
cheapest_effective_usd_per_m: "1.0281 in, 6.1615 out, at alibaba on openrouter"
context: 262144
max_output: 65536
input: ["text"]
output: ["text"]
released: "2026-04-27"
params: ["frequency_penalty", "include_reasoning", "logprobs", "max_tokens", "presence_penalty", "reasoning", "response_format", "seed", "stop", "structured_outputs", "temperature", "tool_choice", "tools", "top_k", "top_logprobs", "top_p"]
endpoints: 1
gateways: "openrouter (1)"
no_training: 1
trains: 0
retains_prompts: 1
intelligence: 28.4000
---
# Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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...