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Qwen3.6 Max Preview

QwenReleased Apr 27, 2026

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and...

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Context window
262K tokens
Max output
66K tokens
Input
text
Output
text
Tokenizer
Qwen
Released
Apr 27, 2026
Reasoning
optional

Pricing

Per 1M tokens. The provider price and our flat 3% fee are separate columns — what you pay is their sum.

Per 1M tokensProvider+ 3% feeYou pay
Input$1.04$0.031$1.07
Output$6.24$0.187$6.43
Cache write$1.30$0.039$1.34

Supported parameters

  • include_reasoning
  • logprobs
  • max_tokens
  • presence_penalty
  • reasoning
  • response_format
  • seed
  • structured_outputs
  • temperature
  • tool_choice
  • tools
  • top_logprobs
  • top_p

Call it

OpenAI-compatible: point your SDK at api.openkey.ai/v1 and use model qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview.

Code sample language
curl https://api.openkey.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENKEY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.openkey.ai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["OPENKEY_API_KEY"],
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.openkey.ai/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.OPENKEY_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Questions

How much does Qwen3.6 Max Preview cost via API?
Through OpenKey, Qwen3.6 Max Preview costs $1.07 per 1M input tokens and $6.43 per 1M output tokens. That is the provider price ($1.04 / $6.24) plus a flat 3% fee — nothing else.
What is Qwen3.6 Max Preview's context window?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts up to 262K tokens of context and returns up to 66K tokens per request.
Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview OpenAI-compatible?
Yes. Send requests to OpenKey's /v1/chat/completions endpoint with model "qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview" using any OpenAI SDK — only the base URL and API key change.
What inputs does Qwen3.6 Max Preview support?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts text input and produces text output.

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