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Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview out? Yes, since April 20, 2026

Yes. Qwen3.6 Max Preview was released on April 20, 2026.

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Have you used it? Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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QwenCloud model releases · Qwen 3.6 Max Preview

What changed

  • context 262k tokens · Context window of Qwen3.6 Max Preview. Qwen3 Max Thinking is the previous model of the same tier, but the gap is beyond what a percentage explains.
  • price +32 % · Prompt price compared with Qwen3 Max Thinking, same tier in this family. Went from $0.780 / MTok to $1.03 / MTok. Lower is better.

About Qwen3.6 Max Preview

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...

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When was Qwen3.6 Max Preview released?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview was released on April 20, 2026.
Who makes Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is made by Alibaba.
What comes after Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Qwen3.6 27B, released on April 23, 2026.