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Qwen3.6 Max Preview

by Alibaba Qwen · Released Apr 2026

Open SourcePreview
59.7
avg score
Rank #86
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Better than 69% of all models
Context
262K tokens (~131 books)
Input $/1M
$1.04
Output $/1M
$6.24
Type
text
License
Open Source
Benchmarks
10 tested
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About

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...

Tested on 10 benchmarks with 51.2% average. Top scores: Chatbot Arena Elo — Coding (1482.8%), Chatbot Arena Elo — Overall (1460.7%), OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (91.1%).

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Capabilities
coding
76.7
#12 globally
reasoning
55.6
#56 globally
math
39.5
#128 globally
knowledge
53.1
#99 globally
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Tested on 10 benchmarks · Ranked across 5 categories
Score Distribution (all 274 models)
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SWE-Bench verified

Real-world software engineering tasks from GitHub issues. Models must diagnose bugs and write patches that pass test suites. Human-verified subset of SWE-bench.

76.7
SimpleBench

Deceptively simple questions that humans find easy but AI models often get wrong. Tests common sense and reasoning gaps.

55.6
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

Mock AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Exam) problems from OTIS. Tests mathematical competition performance.

91.1
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private

Original research-level math problems created by professional mathematicians. Problems are unpublished and cannot be memorized.

23.1
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private

Hardest tier of FrontierMath. Problems at the frontier of human mathematical ability, many unsolved by most mathematicians.

4.2
Excellent (85+) Good (70-85) Average (50-70) Below (<50)
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Specifications
  • Typetext
  • Context262K tokens (~131 books)
  • ReleasedApr 2026
  • LicenseOpen Source
  • Statuspreview
  • Cost / Message~$0.008
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview is an open-source text AI model by Alibaba Qwen, released in April 2026. It has an average benchmark score of 59.7. Context window: 262K tokens.