Qwen3.6 Plus pricing.
prices as of · 27 providers · 31 prices
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3.6 Plus holds 1M tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Closed weights: only Alibaba Cloud and its licensed partners run it, so every other price below resells the same service.
Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.50 in and $3 out per million tokens from Alibaba Cloud; the cheapest price we can explain is $2.93 at Nous Portal, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Alibaba Cloud list price
$4.50/M tokens
$0.50 in · $3 out
read · 27% above the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$2.93/M tokens
$0.33 in · $1.95 out · 35% under list
Nous Portalread
What it costs for your work
Alibaba Cloud list price
$0.48a month
cheapest we can explain · Nous Portal
$0.312a month
difference
$0.168saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling Qwen3.6 Plus
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Alibaba Cloud's price.
The maker's list price
1 priceWhat the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.
Alibaba CloudThe price Alibaba Cloud charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cheaper, and we know why
2 pricesBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
- Nous Portal
Resells OpenRouter's catalog at 0.80× the listed price, funded by a subscription whose credits carry a 10% bonus.
$0.33 / $1.95in / out per M
0.65×of list price
Eden AIAlibaba's China-region price list, which is lower than the international one. A region, not a deal.
$0.33 / $1.95in / out per M
0.65×of list price
Same price as the maker
15 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
OrcaRouterThe same price Alibaba Cloud charges.
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
OpenCode GoThe same price Alibaba Cloud charges.
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Charm Hyper300% above Alibaba Cloud's price.
$2 / $6in / out per M
2.67×of list price
Cheaper, and nobody says why
9 prices · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
Merge Gateway0.55× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$0.28 / $1.65in / out per M
0.55×of list price
AIHubMix0.56× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
991k context here$0.28 / $1.69in / out per M
0.56×of list price
302.AI0.60× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$0.30 / $1.80in / out per M
0.60×of list price
CrossModel0.64× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$0.32 / $1.88in / out per M
0.63×of list price
OpenRouter0.65× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$0.33 / $1.95in / out per M
0.65×of list price
NanoGPT0.65× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
992k context hereNanoGPT ↗$0.33 / $1.95in / out per M
0.65×of list price
Kilo Gateway0.65× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$0.33 / $1.95in / out per M
0.65×of list price
Atlas Cloud0.65× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$0.33 / $1.95in / out per M
0.65×of list price
TrustedRouter0.69× Alibaba Cloud's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
262k context hereTrustedRouter ↗$0.34 / $2.06in / out per M
0.69×of list price
Given away with limits
4 free tiers · never rankedThese providers give Qwen3.6 Plus away inside a quota of their own. A limit is not a price, so none of them counts as cheapest here or anywhere else on the site.
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Frequently asked
- Who sells Qwen3.6 Plus cheapest?
- Nous Portal, at $0.33 in and $1.95 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Resells OpenRouter's catalog at 0.80× the listed price, funded by a subscription whose credits carry a 10% bonus.
- Is Qwen3.6 Plus open weights?
- No. Alibaba Cloud keeps the weights, so every price on this page is Alibaba Cloud's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
- How much context does Qwen3.6 Plus hold?
- 1,000,000 tokens in one call, which is about 1M, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Qwen3.6 Plus compare with the rest of the market?
- At $4.50 per million tokens, Alibaba Cloud's price is 27% above the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.