Qwen3.6 Flash
Alibaba's quick, efficient Qwen 3.6 model that reads text, pictures and video, offered to developers.
This came out before trckr began following OpenRouter, so it was added on Nov 6 without an alert. Its release date comes from OpenRouter.
Key facts
- Released
- Apr 27, 2026
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Watches video: Understands video clips you share with it.
Can I use it?
In an app
No app mentioned so far.
For developers
Developers can use it now through an API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet..
Download
Not downloadable: it runs on the maker's own servers.
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $0.25
- per million tokensCached: $0.025
- Output
- $1.50
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 1M tokens
- about 750,000 words
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- Longest answer
- 66K tokens (about 49,000 words)
- Over 256K tokens
- $1.00 input, $4.00 output per million tokens
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Combined test score#100 of 235
- GPT-6 Astra169
- 2GPT-6.1 Sol169
- 99Qwen 3.5 Flash144
- 100Qwen3.6 Flash144
- 101GLM-4.7143
Source: Epoch AI · Epoch Capabilities Index
Compare Qwen3.6 Flash with
It came out 5 days after Qwen3.6 27B, the lab's previous model.
The details
A fast, efficient model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series accepting text, image and video input with a A 1M-token context window: It can keep about 750,000 words, or 2,500 book pages in mind at once: the question, any files you share, and its own replies.; tiered pricing applies at higher usage.
Model ID: The exact name developers type to use a model, like gpt-5-mini. New IDs often show up in a lab's systems before the official announcement, which is how trckr spots many releases early.
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