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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus Overview

Qwen3.6 Plus is a flagship model in Alibaba’s Qwen Plus series, designed for agentic workflows, coding, and multi-step reasoning. It supports a 1 million token context window and up to 65,536 output tokens, with built-in reasoning capabilities. The model is available as a hosted, proprietary API through Alibaba Cloud.

Compared to Qwen3.5, it improves reliability in multi-step execution and frontend code generation, with stronger performance on agentic coding tasks. It also supports document and image understanding, though its vision capabilities are more limited than dedicated Qwen-VL models. Qwen3.6 Plus is part of a broader Qwen ecosystem that includes both closed-source APIs and open-weight models.

Qwen3.6 Plus Interactive Demo

Qwen3.6 Plus Details & Performance

Details

Resources

Vision Tasks

Vision LanguageObject DetectionOCRVisual Question AnsweringCaptioning

Features

LLMs with Vision CapabilitiesMultimodal Vision

Usage

Past 30 Days

Performance

Avg. Latency

Arena Rankings

Qwen3.6 Plus Vision Evals

Qwen3.6 Plus has not yet been evaluated on the current benchmark. The results below are from the legacy version of Vision Evals, our previous benchmark. See the current Vision Evals

Visual Understanding

77 models · 67 tasks
HighestLowest
This model#25 of 7768.66% pass rate · better than 62%
Score68.66%pass rate across 67 tasks
Speed34.17savg response per task
Cost$0.0005 / task$0.325 in · $1.95 out / 1M
Tokens1.6K / task1.2K in · 47 out
Score key:≥75%40–74%<40%
CategoryPassedScore
Defect Detection13 / 15
86.7%
Object Understanding11 / 14
78.6%
Document Understanding7 / 9
77.8%
Spatial Understanding13 / 19
68.4%
Object Counting2 / 10
20%
HighestLowest
This model#49 of 5858.52% pass rate · better than 14%
Score58.52%pass rate across 229 tasks
Speed5.49savg response per task
Cost$0.0001 / task$0.325 in · $1.95 out / 1M
Tokens166 / task124 in · 18 out
Score key:≥75%40–74%<40%
CategoryPassedScore
Handwritten Math8 / 10
80%
Focused Scene OCR76 / 99
76.8%
VQA & Extraction31 / 60
51.7%
Text Recognition15 / 30
50%
License Plate Recognition4 / 30
13.3%

Scores based on a single evaluation run · Methodology

View all legacy Vision Evals results →

Qwen3.6 Plus Pricing

Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 per 1M input tokens and $1.95 per 1M output tokens.

Input$0.325 / 1M tokens
Output$1.95 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Jul 21, 2026

Price vs. performance

Estimated cost per task vs. Visual Understanding score, for this model and others ranked near it. Upper-left is the sweet spot (high quality, low cost). Based on Vision Evals (legacy) results.

11 of 11 models plotted

ModelScoreMedian tokensEst. cost / taskCompare
AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.670.2%2.3K$0.0080Compare
OpenAIGPT-5.6 Luna70.2%1.5K$0.0017Compare
GoogleGemini 2.5 Pro70.2%856$0.0060Compare
GoogleGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite68.7%1.1K$0.0003Compare
GoogleGemma 4 26B A4B68.7%531$0.0001Compare
QwenQwen3.6 Plus(this model)68.7%1.6K$0.0005
AnthropicClaude Opus 4.867.2%2.2K$0.012Compare
AnthropicClaude Opus 4.767.2%2.6K$0.015Compare
GoogleGemma 4 31B67.2%467$0.0001Compare
AnthropicClaude Opus 4.6 64.2%2.3K$0.014Compare
OpenAIGPT-5.4 Nano62.7%1.8K$0.0004Compare

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Qwen3.6 Plus License

Proprietary

License terms and commercial-use guidance for Qwen3.6 Plus.

This model is proprietary. The author retains all rights, and use of the model is governed by their specific terms of service or license agreement.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Qwen3.6 Plus Vision

Yes. Qwen3.6 Plus accepts image input, and on Roboflow's previous vision benchmark it passed 68.7% of visual understanding tasks (#25 of 77) and scored 58.5% on OCR. You can test it on your own image in the demo above.

Qwen3.6 Plus has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals. The results on this page are from the previous benchmark.

Yes. The demo on this page runs Qwen3.6 Plus in the free Roboflow Playground: upload an image and see results in seconds. A free account unlocks unlimited runs.