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Qwen3.6 Max Preview benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Qwen3.6 Max Preview, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 7, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 7, 2026

#20of 126

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 69 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Artificial Analysis

#27of 115

Score 28.4. Best run: qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#24of 115

Score 1460. Best run: qwen3.6-max-preview.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$2.31

OpenRouter: $1.03 in, $6.16 out Context window 262K tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of Qwen3.6 Max Preview

  1. #17Gemini 3.6 Flash71
  2. #18Gemini 3 Flash Preview70
  3. #19Grok 4.2069
  4. #20Qwen3.6 Max Preview69
  5. #21Claude Sonnet 4.569
  6. #22GLM 5.169
  7. #23GPT-5.6 Terra68

Questions about Qwen3.6 Max Preview

How good is Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview ranks #20 of 126 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 69 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview better than Grok 4.20?
Not on the consensus: Grok 4.20 scores 69 to Qwen3.6 Max Preview's 69. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview better than Claude Sonnet 4.5?
On the consensus, yes: 69 to 69.
How much does Qwen3.6 Max Preview cost?
$1.03 per million input tokens and $6.16 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $2.31 per million.

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