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| Attribute | Qwen3.6 Max Previewqwen3.6-max-preview | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $1.30 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $7.80 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $1.30 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $1.30 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $1.30 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 262.1K | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | Alibaba | |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with approximately 1 trillion parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and long-context reasoning, supporting a 262K token context window. The model includes an integrated thinking mode that preserves reasoning across multi-turn interactions, along with support for structured outputs and function calling. Available exclusively via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and Qwen Studio APIs, it is designed for high-performance, production-grade agent workflows. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. |