Pricingby GlyphQwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series.
Ways to buy 1
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The lab's own API | $0.188 | $1.13 | $0.188 / $1.13List price | n/a | List price |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $41.25 direct.
Kong AI Gateway$41.25+0%
LiteLLM$41.25+0%
Eden AI$43.52+5.5%
OpenRouter$43.52+5.5%
Cloudflare AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
HeliconeNot offeredNot offered
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
RequestyNot offeredNot offered
TrueFoundry AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Vercel AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey.
Related models
| In / out per 1M | Cheapest route | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $4 | $12 | $4 / $12 | $6 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Qwen3.8 Max Prime is a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team, served as a separate SKU at a higher price point. |
Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.15 / $0.47 | $0.23 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is an omni-modal reasoning model from Alibaba, the first Qwen model built around agentic capabilities with native audio-video understanding. |
Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $2 | $6 | $2 / $6 | $3 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Qwen3.8 Max 0902 is an updated snapshot of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team. |
Qwen (Alibaba) · 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.15 / $0.47 | $0.23 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Qwen3.8 Flash is a multimodal reasoning model from Alibaba. |
DeepSeek · 1MCheapest: $0.081 on Particle AI (us-flex) | $0.15 | $0.6 | $0.15 / $0.6 | $0.262 | 1M | $0.081 on Particle AI (us-flex) | · | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the deepseek-flash API model name. |
Z.ai · 1M | $0.179 | $1.4 | $0.179 / $1.4 | $0.484 | 1M | on Wafer (fp4) | · | GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. |
Anthropic · 1M | $0.1 | $0.5 | $0.1 / $0.5 | $0.2 | 1M | Lab list price | · | Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. |
Z.ai · 1M | $0.37 | $1.25 | $0.37 / $1.25 | $0.59 | 1M | Lab list price | · | GLM-5.3-FlashX-Legal (GLM-Legal) is Z.ai's legal-domain variant of GLM-5.3-FlashX, a native multimodal model that accepts text, image, and video input and produces text. |
About Qwen3.6 Flash
Takes text, image, video in and returns text. First listed Apr 27, 2026. Up to 66K output tokens. Blended price $0.422 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id qwen3-6-flash.
Price history
List price since Apr 27, 2026, from Internet Archive snapshots of the OpenRouter catalog, then daily reads.
Qwen3.6 Flash
Qwen (Alibaba) cut its API price: input $0.25 to $0.188 and output $1.5 to $1.13 per 1M tokens.
Across GlyphCompany profile
Questions
How much does Qwen3.6 Flash cost?
$0.188 per million input tokens and $1.13 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen3.6 Flash?
1M tokens, with up to 66K tokens of output.
Has Qwen3.6 Flash's price changed?
Yes. The output price went from $1.5 to $1.13, first seen May 15, 2026.