> Qwen 3.6 Flash is a closed AI model from Alibaba, released 27 Apr 2026. Index score 138 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 92 of 229 ranked models.

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# Qwen 3.6 Flash

Alibaba

Released 27 Apr 2026

Closed

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/qwen-3-6-flash-vs-kimi-k2-6/)

138127–150

Index score

#92 of 229 models

2/ 8

Core tests taken

2 of 6 areas · plus 8 anchor tests

−39

Versus the frontier at release

best then: GPT-5.5

Replaced by [Qwen3.7 Flash](https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen3-7-flash/)

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Price per million tokens

no public API price found

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Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

Gemini 2.5 Pro reached this score 13 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 8 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

83%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

22%

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

evidence

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#92

of 219 · 138

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#89

of 239 · 143.3

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Replaced by Qwen3.7 Flash; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

Qwen Chat

app · subscription

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Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

API

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Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

27 Apr 2026

Announcement

not linked yet

Release entry

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Scored as

Qwen 3.6 Flash

Artificial Analysis index

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Output speed

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Hugging Face

closed weights

## Alibaba releases · around this one

Qwen

Closed

11 APR 2023

Tongyi Qianwen

Closed

11 APR 2023

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen-3-6-flash/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01