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Migrating from qwen3.5-flash to qwen3.6-flash

What changes when you move from qwen3.5-flash to qwen3.6-flash: input price +150%, output price +275%.

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Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier
Typeqwen3.5-flashqwen3.6-flashChange
Input$0.10first seen October 5, 2026 · source$0.25first seen October 5, 2026 · source+150%
Output$0.40first seen October 5, 2026 · source$1.50first seen October 5, 2026 · source+275%

At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $0.20 on qwen3.5-flash, $0.625 on qwen3.6-flash (+212.5%).

Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.

Limits

Tokens
Limitqwen3.5-flashqwen3.6-flashChange
Context window1,000,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source1,000,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source0%
Max output tokens65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source0%

Benchmarks

Same benchmark, source and setting on both sides
Benchmarkqwen3.5-flashqwen3.6-flashChange
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3Epoch AI, no reasoning.
Other settings
  • 9.5% → 17.2%
18.2%22.5%+4.3 pts
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI.82.3%83.3%+1.0 pts
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Epoch AI.84.4%84.4%0 pts
SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI.20.3%15.9%−4.4 pts

A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.

Features and parameters

Compare models

Same on both

  • Structured outputs: supported on both.qwen3.5-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Function calling: supported on both.qwen3.5-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Prompt caching: supported on both.qwen3.5-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Batch API: not supported (supported in the Beijing region only) on both.qwen3.5-flash: first seen October 8, 2026 · source · qwen3.6-flash: first seen October 8, 2026 · source
  • Image input: supported on both.qwen3.5-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Fine-tuning: not supported on both.qwen3.5-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Built-in web search: supported on both.qwen3.5-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source

Not published for qwen3.5-flash: PDF input, Reasoning / thinking, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.

Not published for qwen3.6-flash: PDF input, Reasoning / thinking, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.

Aliases

All aliases

No aliases point at either model.

Checklist

  1. Change the model string from qwen3.5-flash to qwen3.6-flash.
  2. Re-check costs: qwen3.6-flash costs more than qwen3.5-flash (input +150%, output +275%).

Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: qwen3.5-flash, qwen3.6-flash.