This model is deprecated. We only continue performance benchmarking for the default 10k input token workload. Results for other workloads are historical and no longer updated.

Alibaba has launched a newer release, Qwen3.7 Max. We suggest considering it instead.

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Released April 2026

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
License: https://artificialanalysis.ai/docs/legal/Terms-of-Use.pdf

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Intelligence

28*

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

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Qwen3.6 Max Preview is amongst the leading models in intelligence when comparing to other models. The model supports text input, outputs text, and has a 256k tokens context window.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores 28 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (median: 12).

Reasoning	Yes This page shows the reasoning version of this model. A non-reasoning variant may also exist.
Input modality	Supports: text
Output modality	Supports: text
Context window	256k ~384 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font

Metrics are compared against models of the same class:

Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:

Tiny: ≤4B parameters
Small: 4B–40B parameters
Medium: 40B–150B parameters
Large: >150B parameters

Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:

<$0.15 per 1M tokens
$0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
>$1 per 1M tokens

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

No publicly available API

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

No publicly available API

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Indicates whether the model weights are available. Models are labelled as 'Commercial Use Restricted' if commercial use is limited by conditions, and as 'Non-commercial' if the license prohibits commercial use.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Benchmarks

Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better

No publicly available API

AA-Briefcase v1.1Updated

Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

Knowledge

AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate

1 - hallucination rate

AutomationBench-AA

Agentic SaaS workflows

GDPval-AA v2.1Updated

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

Humanity's Last Exam

Reasoning & knowledge

GDP.pdf

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

Terminal-Bench 4.0

Agentic coding & terminal use

AA-LCR v1.1

Long context reasoning

SciCodeUnder review

Coding

CritPtUnder review

Physics reasoning

Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1New

Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal

FrontierCode 1.1New

Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories

AA-AnalystAgent

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Harvey LAB-AA v1.1Updated

Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate

EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA

Agentic business operations

ITBench-AA

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

MLCR-AA

Medical long context reasoning

MMMU-Pro

Visual reasoning

While model intelligence generally translates across use cases, specific evaluations may be more relevant for certain use cases.

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct.

No publicly available API

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

AA-PersonalityBench results are not available for Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

The cost to run the evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, calculated using the model's input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices and the number of tokens used across evaluations (excluding repeats).

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens)

Price per token for cached prompts (previously processed), typically offering a significant discount compared to regular input price, represented as USD per million tokens. The values shown here are the cache hit price; cache write and cache storage are billed separately and vary by provider — see "Cache pricing by provider" for detail.

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Larger context windows are relevant to RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM workflows which typically involve reasoning and information retrieval of large amounts of data.

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview was released on April 20, 2026.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview was created by Alibaba.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores 28 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among other models (median: 12).

Yes, Qwen3.6 Max Preview is a reasoning model. It uses extended thinking or chain-of-thought reasoning to work through complex problems before providing an answer.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview supports text input.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview supports text output.

No, Qwen3.6 Max Preview does not support image input. It can only process text.

No, Qwen3.6 Max Preview is not multimodal. It only supports text input.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has a context window of 260k tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.

No, Qwen3.6 Max Preview is proprietary. The model weights are not publicly available.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is a proprietary model and Alibaba has not disclosed the model size or parameter count.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview achieves a score of 28 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This composite benchmark evaluates models across reasoning, knowledge, mathematics, and coding.

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Qwen3.6 Max Preview Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Model summary

Intelligence

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Comparison Summary

Technical specifications

706 models in this class

Intelligence

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Open Weights

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Benchmarks

Evaluations

Intelligence Evaluation Relevance

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

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Context Window

Context Window for RAG

Context Window

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