Qwen3.6 Flash is Alibaba's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.188 / 1M input and $1.13 / 1M output. A fast, efficient large language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series, supporting text, image, and video inputs with a 1M token context window.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-6-flash
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 6 months ago

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video✓
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3.6-flash
$0.25$1.50N/A$0.125$0.75
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
$0.188$1.13$0.234——

Cost Calculator

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Filetrans————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Streaming————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime——$0.230$0.930Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash TTS————Available
Qwen Audio 3.1 Flash Realtime——$0.230$0.930Available
Qwen Audio 3.1 Flash TTS——$0.230$1.87Available
Qwen3.6 Flash1.0M$0.188$1.13Current
Qwen3 Coder Flash1.0M$0.195$0.975Available
Qwen Flash Character——$0.050$0.400Available
Qwen TTS Flash——$0.230$1.43Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Qwen Image 3—————
Qwen Audio 3 Plus RealtimePlus——$0.800$6.40
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSPlus————
Qwen Audio 3.1 Plus RealtimePlus——$0.800$6.40
Qwen-Audio 3.1 Plus TTSPlus————
Qwen Image 3.0 ProPro————
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct—————
Qwen Image 2.1 Pro—————
Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo—————
Qwen-Image 2.1—————

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-6-flash
openrouter/qwen/qwen3.6-flash
qwen/qwen3.6-flash
qwen3.6-flash
qwen3.6-flash-2026-04-16
qwen3.6-flash-us