Qwen3.6 Flash

qwen3.6-flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast and efficient model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series, supporting text, image, and video inputs with a 1M-token context window for high-context multimodal workflows. Optimized for performance and cost efficiency, it features tiered pricing beyond 256K tokens and supports prompt caching with both cache creation and read pricing, making it well suited for large-scale, high-throughput applications.

Context: 1M tokens
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Pricing

Input$0.25 / 1M

Output$1.50 / 1M

Cache Write (5m)$0.25 / 1M

Cache Write (1h)$0.25 / 1M

Cache Read$0.25 / 1M

Web Search$0 / 1M

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from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",    base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="qwen3.6-flash",    messages=[        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}    ],    max_tokens=1024,    temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(#     model="qwen3.6-flash",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

Supported Parameters

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Common7 params

modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtools

Extended4 params

reasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_body

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qwen3.6-flash

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