Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and long-context reasoning, supporting a 262K token context window. The model includes an integrated thinking mode that preserves reasoning traces across multi-turn conversations and supports structured output and function calling. Access is available exclusively through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and Qwen Studio APIs; no open weights are provided.
Retired on Oct 10, 2026: requests to this model ID now return an error. These models are live and work with the same API key.
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and long-context reasoning, supporting a 262K token context window.
No. Qwen3.6 Max Preview was retired on NagaAI on Oct 10, 2026, and requests to it now return an error. Live models you can use instead with the same API key: Qwen3.8 Max Prime, Qwen3.8 Omni Flash and Qwen3.8 Flash.
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