Qwen3-VL Plus vs Qwen3.6 Plus: API price and specs

Qwen3-VL Plus is 53% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on input price.

Qwen3-VL Plus is 37% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on output price.

Qwen3-VL Plus is 44% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Qwen3.6 Plus has a 281.5% larger context than Qwen3-VL Plus.

Field	Qwen3-VL Plus	Qwen3.6 Plus
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.13	$0.28 +112.3%
Median input, per 1M	$0.17	$0.50 +185.8%
Lowest output, per 1M	$1.04	$1.65 +58.8%
Median output, per 1M	$1.55	$3.00 +93.6%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.34	$0.61 +79.3%
Context	262K +73.8%	1M
Max output	33K +50%	66K
Providers	7 +65%	20
Regions	EU, GLOBAL	GLOBAL
Accepts	image, text, video	image, image/bmp, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, pdf, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-flv, video/x-matroska, video/x-ms-wmv, video/x-msvideo
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	yes
Cheapest provider	edenai	empiriolabs

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aihubmix, aiml, edenai, meganova, moark, trustedrouter, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3-VL Plus or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3-VL Plus is 53% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on input price. Qwen3-VL Plus is 37% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on output price. Qwen3-VL Plus is 44% cheaper than Qwen3.6 Plus on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3-VL Plus or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3-VL Plus: 262K tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3-VL Plus and Qwen3.6 Plus?

aihubmix, aiml, edenai, meganova, moark, trustedrouter, zenmux