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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs QwQ-32B ·Alibaba vs Alibaba

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs QwQ-32B — head-to-head comparison

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview profile QwQ-32B profile All comparisons
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — Alibaba
Quality
#12 of 65
90based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#172 of 339
47.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#320 of 439
$2.31
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.03 · Out $6.16
Cache hit price
#187 of 322
$0.13
per 1M tokens (−87%)
Context
#215 of 473
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
QwQ-32B — Alibaba
Quality
#29 of 65
69based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores 90 and QwQ-32B scores 69 — a 21-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview. They share 2 published evaluations, with Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview ahead on 2 and QwQ-32B ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview only, at $2.31 per 1M tokens blended.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview is proprietary; QwQ-32B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 1 tracked host serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ-32B
Known Good Index 90 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 69 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $2.31
Output tok/s 48
Context window 262k
Providers 1 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ-32B
Known Good Index 90 69
Reasoning Index 75
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview · marker = QwQ-32B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond87 / 65
Mock AIME 2024–2591 / 59

Right-hand figures read Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview / QwQ-32B. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads on 2 of 2, QwQ-32B on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ-32B
Text Arena 1,446 1,329
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,460 1,336
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ-32B
Input $/1M $1.03
Output $/1M $6.16
Blended $/1M $2.31
Cache read $/1M $0.130
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ-32B
Context window 262k
Max output tokens 66k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ-32B
Output tokens/s 48
Time to first token 1.8s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

1 host
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview tok/s QwQ-32B blendedQwQ-32B tok/s
Alibaba · first party $2.31 47

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →