Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Released Apr 27, 2026Try it on:
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...
Best overall rank
#13
Across all subsets · overall
Total arena votes
36,006
Across 27 (subset, category) entries
Providers on OR
1
Alibaba
First seen
2026-05-08
26 days tracked
Trend
Pricing
Per token
- Input (per 1M)
- $1.04
- Output (per 1M)
- $6.24
- Cache Write (per 1M)
- $1.30
Capabilities
Modality
text->textContext
262K tokens
Tokenizer
Qwen
Max output
66K tokens
Moderation
Unmoderated
Supported parameters
include_reasoning
logprobs
max_tokens
presence_penalty
reasoning
response_format
seed
structured_outputs
temperature
tool_choice
tools
top_logprobs
top_p
Providers
| Provider | Region / Tag | Context | Input/M | Output/M | Uptime 1d | Latency | Quant | Cache |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | alibaba | 262K | $1.04 | $6.24 | 99.98% | - | - | - |
Per-category ranks
Text
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #9 | Industry Mathematical | - | 1505 | 308 | |
| #11 | Math | - | 1492 | 327 | |
| #15 | Industry Medicine And Healthcare | - | 1491 | 319 | |
| #19 | Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | - | 1487 | 773 | |
| #21 | Expert | - | 1497 | 469 | |
| #23 | Industry Writing And Literature And Language | - | 1452 | 989 | |
| #30 | Longer Query | - | 1470 | 1,760 | |
| #31 | Exclude Ties | - | 1462 | 3,338 | |
| #31 | Overall | - | 1459 | 4,648 | |
| #32 | Coding | - | 1506 | 1,327 | |
| #32 | Hard Prompts | - | 1479 | 2,939 | |
| #32 | Industry Software And It Services | - | 1492 | 1,884 | |
| #34 | Instruction Following | - | 1448 | 1,511 | |
| #34 | Russian | - | 1455 | 472 | |
| #34 | Spanish | - | 1453 | 224 | |
| #37 | Creative Writing | - | 1432 | 666 | |
| #38 | Chinese | - | 1495 | 283 | |
| #38 | English | - | 1463 | 2,104 | |
| #38 | Hard Prompts English | - | 1477 | 1,394 | |
| #39 | Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | - | 1428 | 826 | |
| #39 | Multi Turn | - | 1466 | 742 | |
| #40 | Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | - | 1450 | 883 | |
| #54 | Industry Legal And Government | - | 1453 | 330 |
WebDev
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #12 | Webdev-react | - | 1480 | 2,183 | |
| #13 | Overall | - | 1486 | 2,498 | |
| #13 | Webdev | - | 1486 | 2,498 | |
| #16 | Webdev-html | - | 1476 | 311 |