Qwen3.6 Plus

qwen/qwen3.6-plus-04-02

Qwen3.6 Plus, released on 2025-08-26 by Qwen, processes text, image, and video inputs and produces text output. It supports tool usage, reasoning capabilities, and a context window of up to 1,000,000 tokens. Usage costs are $0.325 per million input tokens and $1.95 per million output tokens, and the model weights are not open.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning

At a glance

providerqwen
releasedAug 26, 2025
context1M
input / M$0.33

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
1M tokens
Max output
66K tokens
Input price
$0.33 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.95 / 1M tokens
Cache read
—
Modalities
text, image, video → text
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
Aug 26, 2025

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

Design Arena Coding
1236 Elo2026-10-21
Design Arena UI
1232 Elo2026-10-21
Design Arena Website
1243 Elo2026-10-21
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)
38.2% ± 2.92026-08-30evaluated 2026-08-30
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)‡
32.3% ± 2.82026-08-29none effort, evaluated 2026-08-29
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)
88.4% ± 2.32026-08-07evaluated 2026-08-07
LiveBench Agentic Coding
41.4%2026-10-18
LiveBench Coding
78.2%2026-10-18
LiveBench Data Analysis
69.9%2026-10-18
LiveBench Instruction Following
58.3%2026-10-18
LiveBench Language
75.0%2026-10-18
LiveBench Math
83.7%2026-10-18
LiveBench Reasoning
75.8%2026-10-18
LMArena Creative Writing
1404 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Instruction Following
1424 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Long Query
1439 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Math
1449 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Text
1443 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena Text Factuality
1438 Elo2026-10-20
LMArena WebDev
1461 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web
1472 Elo2026-10-19
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)
93.3% ± 3.82026-08-07evaluated 2026-08-07
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)
44.1% ± 1.62026-08-27evaluated 2026-08-27

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference. ‡ Submitted scaffold plus model result. Compare the harness and effort settings, not only the model name.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

  • Best LLM for Competition MathEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Business WritingEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Marketing CopyEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Creative WritingEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Show all 35 tasks
  • Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for WritingEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Math & ReasoningEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 5 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for a General AssistantEstablished evidence

    100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Code CompletionEstablished evidence

    79% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingEstablished evidence

    64% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Fast SummariesEstablished evidence

    58% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Value LLMEstablished evidence

    58% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence

    53% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Literary TranslationEstablished evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Everyday TranslationEstablished evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for TranslationEstablished evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Local LLM for CodingEstablished evidence

    47% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document SummarizationEstablished evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for SummarizationEstablished evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeEstablished evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Cheapest Capable LLMEstablished evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputEstablished evidence

    35% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionEstablished evidence

    35% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewEstablished evidence

    33% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Grounded RAGEstablished evidence

    29% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextProvisional evidence

    22% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Document. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for High-Volume ExtractionProvisional evidence

    21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Route reliability or Structured-output eval. 1 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Agentic CodingProvisional evidence

    16% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Design Arena Full-stack or Design Arena Web-apps. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Autonomous AgentsProvisional evidence

    13% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or LMArena Agent Task Outcome. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Image UnderstandingProvisional evidence

    11% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Vision or VLMEvalKit tasks. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for AI AgentsProvisional evidence

    9% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 9 of 9 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.

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