> Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a closed AI model from Alibaba, released 20 Apr 2026. Index score 153 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 54 of 229 ranked models. API price $1.03 in / $6.16 out per million tokens, 262K context.

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# Qwen3.6-Max-Preview

Alibaba

Released 20 Apr 2026

Closed

Flagship

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/qwen3-6-max-preview-vs-kimi-k2-6/)

153141–164

Index score

#54 of 229 models

2/ 8

Core tests taken

2 of 6 areas · plus 9 anchor tests

−18

Versus the frontier at release

best then: GPT-5.4

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

$1.03/ $6.16

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

262K

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_

GPT-5 reached this score 8 months earlier.

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

Show 9 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

87%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

evidence

SWE-bench Verified

77%

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

#54

of 219 · 153

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#38

of 373 · 1476

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#51

of 383 · 1512

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#53

of 388 · 1460

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#54

of 386 · 1436

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#54

of 239 · 149.2

LMArena · WebDev

building web apps and front ends

#54

of 123 · 1482

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

1st

SWE-bench Verified

Epoch AI · independent

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

↗

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

API

↗

#### API providers · 1 · per million tokens, in / out

A

Alibaba

$1.03 / $6.16

cheapest

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

20 Apr 2026

Announcement

not linked yet

Release entry

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview

Scored as

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)

Artificial Analysis index

–

Output speed

–

Hugging Face

closed weights

## Alibaba releases · around this one

Qwen3.6-Plus

Closed

2 APR 2026

index 148

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Open

16 APR 2026

index 139

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview

Closed

20 APR 2026

index 153

Qwen3.7-Max

Closed

19 MAY 2026

index 162

Qwen3.7-Plus

Closed

1 JUN 2026

index 147

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen3-6-max-preview/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01