Qwen3.6 Plus

API-only Qwen tier (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio).

Released

Apr 1, 2026

Price in / out

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Blended $/1M

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Context

Benchmark scoresvs Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

Benchmark	Score	Δ vs prior	Rank (current)	Configuration	Source
Terminal-Bench 2.1	53.2%	—	#19 of 21	leaderboard	benchlm.ai ↗
SWE-bench Verified	78.8%	+2.6	#4 of 9	leaderboard	benchlm.ai ↗
Humanity's Last Exam	28.8%	+0.1	#13 of 15	leaderboard	benchlm.ai ↗
AIME 2026	95.3%	+2.0	#1 of 2	leaderboard	benchlm.ai ↗
τ²-bench (Telecom)	97.7%	+13.8	#1 of 10	leaderboard	benchlm.ai ↗
MMLU-Pro	88.5%	+0.7	#1 of 4	leaderboard	benchlm.ai ↗
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index	39.6	+5.9	#6 of 11	leaderboard	benchlm.ai ↗

Qwen versions

Timeline

Version	Released	$ in / out	Terminal-Bench	SWE-bench	GPQA	HLE	AIME	τ²-bench
Qwen3.5 397B-A17BSuperseded	2026-02-15	—	—	76.2%	—	28.7%	93.3%	83.9%
Qwen3.6 PlusSuperseded	2026-04-01	—	53.2%	78.8%	—	28.8%	95.3%	97.7%
Qwen3.6 27BSuperseded	2026-04-22	—	—	77.2%	—	24%	94.1%	94.2%
Qwen3.7 MaxSuperseded	2026-05-20	$2.5 / $7.5	61%	80.4%	92.4%	41.4%	—	94.7%
Qwen3.7 PlusSuperseded	2026-06-01	—	52.8%	77.7%	90.3%	34.7%	—	93%
Qwen3.8 Max	2026-08-02	$2 / $6	67.4%	—	92.6%	43.6%	—	—
Qwen3.8 27B	2026-08-05	—	58.4%	—	89.2%	30.8%	—	—
Qwen3.8 Flash-Next	2026-08-24	—	—	—	91.7%	35.9%	—	—

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