> Qwen3.6-Plus is a closed AI model from Alibaba, released 2 Apr 2026. Index score 148 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 61 of 229 ranked models. API price $0.33 in / $1.95 out per million tokens, 1M context.

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# Qwen3.6-Plus

Alibaba

Released 2 Apr 2026

Closed

Flagship

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

148136–159

Index score

#61 of 229 models

3/ 8

Core tests taken

3 of 6 areas · plus 8 anchor tests

−23

Versus the frontier at release

best then: GPT-5.4

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

$0.33/ $1.95

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

1M

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 7 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

88%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

38%

Coding

evidence

SWE-bench Verified

58%

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

#61

of 219 · 148

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#65

of 373 · 1454

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#77

of 383 · 1496

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#79

of 388 · 1443

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#84

of 386 · 1407

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#59

of 239 · 147.6

LMArena · WebDev

building web apps and front ends

#60

of 123 · 1461

LiveBench · Overall

overall, with fresh questions to limit contamination

#50

of 58 · 68.9

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-Plus; 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

↗

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

API

↗

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

A

Alibaba

$0.33 / $1.95

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

2 Apr 2026

Announcement

not linked yet

Release entry

Qwen3.6-Plus

Scored as

Qwen 3.6 Plus

Artificial Analysis index

–

Output speed

–

Hugging Face

closed weights

## Alibaba releases · around this one

Qwen3-Max-Thinking

Closed

26 JAN 2026

Qwen3.5

Open

16 FEB 2026

index 146

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

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