QwenFastReleased 27 April 2026
Qwen3.6 Flash pricing, context and benchmark
Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series.
1M
Input context
66K
Output context
$0.188
Official input
$1.125
Official output
n/a
AA index
01 · Model Overview
Everything that matters, in one table
Context, pricing, cache, modalities and tooling, from the model registry and Artificial Analysis.
| Model | Qwen3.6 Flash |
| Model ID | qwen/qwen3.6-flash |
| Provider | Qwen |
| Release date | 27 April 2026 |
| Status | Generally available |
| Input context | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Output context | 65,536 tokens |
| Official input pricing | $0.188 per 1M tokens |
| Official output pricing | $1.125 per 1M tokens |
| Cache read pricing | Not published |
| Market input pricing | $0.188 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Market output pricing | $1.125 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Input modalities | text · image · video |
| Output modalities | text |
| Reasoning control | Not exposed |
| Tool support | Text generation only |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Provider routes | 1 endpoint |
| Artificial Analysis index | Not published |
| Speed | Not published |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not publicly stated |
Input and output support
| Modality | Input | Output | Billed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text | ✓ yes | ✓ yes | $0.188 in |
| Image | ✓ yes | no | $0.188 in |
| Audio | no | no | not supported |
| Video | ✓ yes | no | $0.188 in |
| File (PDF) | no | no | not supported |
02 · Overview
What is Qwen3.6 Flash?
Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series.
It supports text, image, and video input with a 1M token context window.
Tiered pricing kicks in...
Qwen3.6 Flash carries a 1M token window, uses the Qwen3 tokenizer and is served by Qwen. On Hoodgen it sits in the Fast tier of the model menu next to its siblings, so you can switch mid conversation without losing the thread.
03 · Release
Release and what changed from the previous version
Released27 April 2026
This is the only release of Qwen3.6 Flash on OpenRouter, released 27 April 2026. The provider has not published a knowledge cutoff, so treat training data as recent but unconfirmed for very new events.
04 · Capabilities
Features and capabilities
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Vision
Screenshots, charts and photographed documents are read at the text token rate.
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Audio and video
Calls, meetings and screen recordings can be summarised in one pass.
07 · Use cases
What can you do with Qwen3.6 Flash?
High volume drafts
Captions, titles, product blurbs and rewrite passes where cost per call dominates.
Inline assistants
Autocomplete, quick replies and menu helpers that must answer inside a second.
Batch classification
Tagging, routing and extraction across thousands of short inputs.
Cheap agent loops
Tool calling loops that do not need frontier grade reasoning.
09 · Pricing
Qwen3.6 Flash pricing
Official pricing
List price
$0.188 / 1M in
$1.125 / 1M out
- 1M context
- text, image, video input
Cheapest route
$0.188 / 1M in
$1.125 / 1M out
- 1 route on OpenRouter
- What Hoodgen routes to first
- Same model, lower bill
Market pricing, every route
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | standard | $0.188 | $1.125 | n/a | 91.8% |
API pricing and cost calculator
| Rate | Per call | Total | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $0.0054 | $2.72 | 2583 |
| List price | $0.0054 | $2.72 | 2583 |
10 · Developers
API and developer information
| Model ID | qwen/qwen3.6-flash |
| Endpoint | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| Parameters | prompt and max_tokens |
| Streaming | Yes, server sent events |
| Modality string | text+image+video->text |
| Max prompt tokens | 1,000,000 |
| Max completion tokens | 65,536 |
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3.6-flash",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this document." }],
"max_tokens": 1024
}'11 · Limitations
Model limitations
| Text only output | It cannot generate images, audio or video. Pair it with an image model on Hoodgen when you need visuals. |
| Output cap | 65,536 tokens per request. Long deliverables have to be chunked. |
| Benchmarks not published | Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no benchmark score is claimed here. |
| Knowledge cutoff | The provider does not state a fixed cutoff for every release. Verify very recent events against search. |
| Depth ceiling | Fast tier: strong on throughput, weaker than flagship tiers on long multi step reasoning. |
12 · Comparison
Qwen3.6 Flash vs other Qwen models
| Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M | AA index | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 Flash | 1M | $0.188 | $1.125 | n/a | 2026 |
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | 1M | $4 | $12 | n/a | Sep 2026 |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | 1.05M | $2 | $6 | n/a | 2026 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | n/a | $2 | $6 | 34 | 2026 |
| Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | 1M | $2 | $6 | n/a | Sep 2026 |
| Qwen3.7 Max | 1M | $1.475 | $4.425 | n/a | 2026 |
13 · Privacy
Privacy and data policy
- On Hoodgen, prompts and attachments answer that request and stay in your conversation history so you can reopen it. They are not used to train models.
- Requests route through OpenRouter to Qwen and are covered by that provider's API terms.
- Do not paste secrets or personal data you would not send to any hosted model.
14 · FAQ
Qwen3.6 Flash questions, answered
Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast model from Qwen, released 27 April 2026. Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series.
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