Today's price · per 1M tokens
Input
$0.250
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.50
per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.563
blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output
Source: official Alibaba pricing · read Aug 6, 2026
MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-06
Overview
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-generation cheap tier on Model Studio. $0.25/$1.50 per 1M tokens up to 256K context; the 256K–1M tier is billed at $1.00/$4.00. 1M-token context, text-only.
Capabilities
struck through = not supportedInput 1/5
Text ✓
Image
Audio
Video
PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓
Image
Audio
Video
Embedding
Features 2/9
Prompt caching
Reasoning
Coding
Fast inference ✓
Long context ✓
Open weights
Multimodal
Web search
Realtime
Specifications
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Modality
- text
- Parameters
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No — proprietary
- Released
- Apr 16, 2026
- Status
- Current
- Last updated
- Aug 6, 2026
- Tags
Availability verified: Aug 6, 2026 — listed on Alibaba's own page