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Qwen3.6-Flash

The low-cost tier of the Qwen3.6 native vision-language series and successor to Qwen3.5-Flash, with gains in code agents, math and code reasoning, and object localization.

Context: 1M tokens
Max output: 66K

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Hosted API price

List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.25 /1M
Output: $1.50 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Qwen3.6-Flash, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Qwen3.6-Flash, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Alibaba Cloud Creator	$0.25	$1.50	$5.50	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Qwen3.6-Flash by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Qwen3.6-Flash per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen3.6-Flash
Qwen3.7-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.4167	$0.28	$1.10	1M		−9%
Qwen3-VL-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.4333	$0.20	$1.60	262K		−5%
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek	$0.45	$0.30	$1.20	1M		−2%
MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax	$0.45	$0.30	$1.20	205K		−2%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google Cloud	$0.4583	$0.25	$1.50	1M	Jan 2025	0%
Qwen3.6-Flash This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.4583	$0.25	$1.50	1M
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.50	$0.30	$1.50	262K		+9%
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	$0.5233	$0.45	$0.89	1M		+14%
GPT-5 Mini OpenAI	$0.5417	$0.25	$2.00	400K	May 2024	+18%
DeepSeek V3 Turbo DeepSeek	$0.55	$0.40	$1.30	64K		+20%
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B Thinking Alibaba Cloud	$0.5667	$0.20	$2.40	262K		+24%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Qwen3.6-Flash accepts and can do, as published by Alibaba Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Video Accepts video as input.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
MCP Connect to services via Model Context Protocol.

Common questions

What is Qwen3.6-Flash good for?

Cost-sensitive agentic coding and text, image and video work, as the low-cost tier of the Qwen3.6 series.

When is Qwen3.6-Flash not a good fit?

Self-hosting: the weights are closed, with no named open Qwen3.6 backbone. No audio input or image output, and Alibaba lists fine-tuning as unsupported.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3.6-Flash?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.25 / $1.50 per 1M tokens via Alibaba Cloud.

How does Qwen3.6-Flash compare with Qwen3.7-Flash?

Alibaba says the Qwen3.7 Flash models improve multimodal understanding and agent execution over Qwen3.6-Flash, with better object recognition and spatial perception, more stable end to end runs in search and code interpreter agents, and optimized coding. Same 1M-token context and text, image and video input. Qwen3.6-Flash lists at 733% more per 1M input tokens and 1054% more per 1M output tokens than Qwen3.7-Flash. It has a smaller max output (66K against 131K tokens).

Can I self-host Qwen3.6-Flash?

No. Alibaba Cloud does not publish the weights; Qwen3.6-Flash is available only through hosted APIs.