Question 1

What is Qwen3.6 Flash?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3.6 Flash is a model from Qwen, released on Apr 27, 2026. Qwen3.6 Flash is a fast, efficient language model from Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 series. It supports text, image, and video input with a 1M token context window. Tiered pricing kicks in above 256K tokens. Prompt caching is supported, with both explicit cache read and cache creation pricing.

Question 2

How much does Qwen3.6 Flash cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.19 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter, and output starts at $1.13 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter, after gateway discounts. Averaged across 3 providers, it costs $0.23 per 1M input tokens and $1.38 per 1M output tokens.

Question 3

Which providers serve Qwen3.6 Flash on Respan?

Accepted Answer

3 providers serve Qwen3.6 Flash: OpenRouter, EmpirioLabs, and Qwen. Qwen requires your own provider API key (BYOK).

Question 4

What is Qwen3.6 Flash's context window?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3.6 Flash accepts up to 1M tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use Qwen3.6 Flash with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "qwen/qwen3.6-flash". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is Qwen3.6 Flash?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 53 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 1.3 seconds on OpenRouter. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Question 7

How does Qwen3.6 Flash score on benchmarks?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3.6 Flash has 9 published benchmark scores, including GPQA Diamond 83.3%, OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 84.4%, and SimpleQA Verified 15.9%. Each score links to where it was published; the data is collected by llmmetric.com.

Provider	Context	Input	Output
OpenRouter`openrouter/qwen/qwen3.6-flash`	1M	$0.19/M	$1.13/M
EmpirioLabs`empiriolabs/qwen3-6-flash`	1M	$0.25/M	$1.50/M
QwenBYOK only`qwen/qwen3.6-flash`	1M	$0.25/M	$1.50/M

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