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Qwen3.6 Plus API pricing: cheapest provider

2 providers sell Qwen3.6 Plus. Alibaba Cloud Model Studio is cheapest, and listed prices are close.

Cheapest$1.13per 1M · Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
Input · output$0.50 / $3.00per 1M tokens
Price gap1.0×across 2 providers
Accuracy88.4%GPQA
Context1Mmax tokens

$1.13 Alibaba Cloud Model Studioclose prices$1.13 Together AI

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Standard list prices in USD from each provider's pricing page · last price change Sep 28, 2026 · How we collect and rank prices

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Qwen3.6 Plus monthly cost by provider

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Input tokens per month (millions)Prompts, context and documents you send.Output tokens per month (millions)Tokens the model generates.

More requirements: caching, context, features, provider

Cached share of input (%)0 = no caching. Only documented cache-read rates qualify.Required context per request (tokens)0 = any. Providers without a sufficient known limit are excluded.Required featureProvider requirement

Provider	Estimated / month	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Cached input / 1M	Context
1 Alibaba Cloud Model StudioModel developer - lowest for your volumeSingapore (International) list price; other regions differ.Pricing page	$11.00	$0.50	$3.00	$0.05	1,000,000
2 Together AIInference providerPricing page	$11.00	$0.50	$3.00	Not listed	1,000,000

Order depends on listed price for your volume only. No provider pays for its position.

Input volume includes the cached share, not an additional token volume. This is a list-price estimate, not a quote: cache-write charges, cache eligibility/TTL, batch discounts, long-context surcharges, regional pricing and taxes are excluded. Check the provider's terms for your workload before switching.

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| Qwen3.6 Plus provider | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 1M tokens | 10M in + 2M out per month |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | $0.50 | $3.00 | $11.00 |
| Together AI | $0.50 | $3.00 | $11.00 |

Standard list prices as of Oct 31, 2026. Source: [AISelect.online](https://aiselect.online/models/qwen3-6-plus)

Accuracy: GPQA Diamond (graduate-level science questions) measured by Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) on qwen3.6-plus, run Aug 7, 2026. The model is the same at every provider, though quantized deployments can score lower.

Price history

The cheapest price has not changed since tracking started on Sep 28, 2026: $1.13 per 1M tokens at Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. All price changes

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Already using the OpenAI SDK? Change the base URL, key and model name:

from openai import OpenAI
import os

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.together.ai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["TOGETHER_API_KEY"],
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-Plus",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)

Base URL from Together AI's API docs, model name from the open pricing datasets. Check the model page in Together AI's docs before you switch production traffic.

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