# Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview: AI model fact sheet

- **Provider:** qwen
- **Released:** 2026-04-27
- **Context window:** 262,144 tokens
- **API pricing:** $1.04 / 1M input, $6.24 / 1M output
- **OpenRouter ID:** qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview
- **Capabilities:** conversation, reasoning, code-generation, analysis, tool-use, agentic-tool-use, function-calling

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 long-context reasoning, supporting a 262K token context window. The model includes an integrated thinking mode that preserves reasoning traces across multi-turn conversations and supports structured output and function calling. Access is available exclusively through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and Qwen Studio APIs; no open weights are provided.

Source: real side-by-side outputs, pricing and specs at https://rival.tips/models/qwen3.6-max-preview