Qwen 3.6 Plus
Qwen 3.6 Plus is an API-only (closed weights) language model from Qwen, released March 31, 2026. The context window is 1M tokens. On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 148.9, rank 74 of 256 rated models. API price: $0.5 input / $3 output per million tokens.
Following the release of the Qwen3.5 series in February, we are thrilled to announce the official launch of Qwen3.6-Plus. Available immediately via our API, this release represents a massive capability upgrade over its predecessor. Most notably, we have drastically enhanced the model’s agentic coding capabilities.
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Strengths by category
ModelTape's 0–100 fit on Epoch AI benchmark results.
| Category | Score | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 12.1 | Chess Puzzles, Mystery Game Puzzles |
| Math | 43.3 | OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025, FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private, FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private |
| Knowledge | 73.2 | GPQA diamond, SimpleQA Verified |
Benchmark results
| Benchmark (Epoch AI) | Score |
|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 93.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 88.0% |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.9% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 44.1% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3) | 40.3% |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private | 13.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | 11.6% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 3.1% |
Links
Announcement · Epoch AI benchmarks
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