Model pricing
Qwen 3.6 Plus API list price — cost per token
Base rates match Zen. The context premium is retained from earlier Go pricing and is absent from the current Go table. Qwen 3.6 Plus costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens (USD). Requests at >256K tokens are billed at a premium tier for the whole request.
| Token rate | USD / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Effortqualitative reasoning depth | Medium |
| Inputper 1M tokens | $0.50 |
| Output | $3.00 |
| Cache write · 5-minuteper 1M tokens | $0.625 |
| Cache readper 1M tokens | $0.05 |
| Input · >256K context | $2.00 |
| Output · >256K context | $6.00 |
Notional list price. Base rates match Zen. The context premium is retained from earlier Go pricing and is absent from the current Go table. These notional figures are retained for historical accounting, not a current price quote.
Cache & context economics
Cache reads cost $0.05 per million tokens — about a tenth of input. The >256K tokens context tier reprices the whole request.
Common questions
- How much does Qwen 3.6 Plus cost per million tokens?
- $0.50 input and $3.00 output per million tokens (USD list price).
- What is the cache-read price for Qwen 3.6 Plus?
- $0.05 per million cached-read tokens — about a tenth of the input rate.
- Does Qwen 3.6 Plus have a context pricing tier?
- Yes — at >256K tokens input rises to $2.00 per million for the entire request.
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