How much does Qwen3.6 Plus cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen3.6 Plus costs about $600.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.50 per 1M input tokens, $3.00 per 1M output tokens).

Does Qwen3.6 Plus support prompt caching?

Yes. Cached input costs $0.05 per 1M tokens, compared with $0.50 for regular input. Writing to the cache costs $0.625 per 1M tokens.

How long is Qwen3.6 Plus's context window?

Qwen3.6 Plus accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 65,536 tokens per response.

Qwen3.6 Plus API Pricing

Alibaba · released Apr 2, 2026 · 1M context · API model ID qwen3.6-plus

Qwen3.6 Plus by Alibaba API pricing: $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Qwen3.6 Plus prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.50
Output	$3.00
Cache read	$0.05
Cache write	$0.625

Alibaba's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$600.00

per month

per day: $20.00
per request: $0.002

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Long-context prices

Prompts longer than the threshold are billed at a higher rate.

Prompts over	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write
256,000 tokens	$2.00	$6.00	$0.20	$2.50

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$600.00/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$825.00/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$390.00/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 1,000,000 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input: text, image, video
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: April 2025
Open weights: No
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: Yes
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Qwen3.6 Plus cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen3.6 Plus costs about $600.00 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.50 per 1M input tokens, $3.00 per 1M output tokens).
Does Qwen3.6 Plus support prompt caching?: Yes. Cached input costs $0.05 per 1M tokens, compared with $0.50 for regular input. Writing to the cache costs $0.625 per 1M tokens.
How long is Qwen3.6 Plus's context window?: Qwen3.6 Plus accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens (1M) of context and returns up to 65,536 tokens per response.