Qwen3.6 Flash API

About Qwen3.6 Flash

Fast Qwen3.6 vision-language model for agentic coding, math reasoning, spatial understanding, OCR, and text, image, and video input.

Supports text, image, and video inputs, thinking mode with enable_thinking and thinking_budget, function calling, structured output, and web search through tool_web_search. Web search adds $0.02 per query when enabled. Thinking tokens are billed as output tokens. Explicit cache controls are not supported.

Qwen3.6 Flash specs

Model ID

qwen3-6-flash

Provider

Alibaba Cloud

Category

Text Generation

Context window

1M tokens

Max output

65,536 tokens

Input

text, image, video

Output

text

Region

Singapore

Endpoints

POST /v1/chat/completions
POST /v1/responses
POST /v1/messages

Qwen3.6 Flash API pricing

Live pay-as-you-go rates from the EmpirioLabs catalog. You are billed only for what you use, with no monthly minimum.

How to call the Qwen3.6 Flash API

Qwen3.6 Flash serves the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API. Point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1 with your EmpirioLabs API key and use the model id qwen3-6-flash. Get an API key from the EmpirioLabs dashboard.

curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen3-6-flash",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."}
    ]
  }'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen3-6-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Qwen3.6 Flash API parameters

Request parameters supported by the Qwen3.6 Flash API on EmpirioLabs. Defaults apply when a field is omitted.

Good to know

Supports text, image, and video input. Web search is available through tool_web_search and adds $0.02 per query when enabled. Thinking tokens are billed as output tokens. Explicit cache controls are not supported.

Qwen3.6 Flash variants

Variants are alternate versions of Qwen3.6 Flash with their own model id. Depending on the variant, they can differ in serving region, pricing, or supported parameters; everything else works the same way.

Qwen3.6 Flash :variant1China1M contextSave up to 34%

Call it with the model id qwen3-6-flash:variant1.

Qwen3.6 Flash API: common questions

How much does the Qwen3.6 Flash API cost?

On EmpirioLabs, Qwen3.6 Flash is billed pay as you go: Input <=256K $0.25; 256K-1M $1.00 per 1M prompt tokens; Output <=256K $1.50; 256K-1M $4.00 per 1M generated tokens; Web search $0.02 per query when enabled. The live rate card on this page always matches what the API charges.

What is the context window of Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash supports a 1M-token context window with up to 65,536 output tokens per response.

Is the Qwen3.6 Flash API OpenAI-compatible?

Yes. Qwen3.6 Flash serves the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API, so existing OpenAI SDKs work by pointing base_url at https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1 and setting the model id to qwen3-6-flash.

Which Qwen3.6 Flash variants are available?

Qwen3.6 Flash is available as 2 model ids: the default qwen3-6-flash plus qwen3-6-flash:variant1 (China). Variants can differ in serving region, pricing, or supported parameters; the rate cards for each are on this page.

Can I try Qwen3.6 Flash in the browser before integrating?

Yes. The EmpirioLabs playground runs Qwen3.6 Flash in the browser with the same parameters the API exposes, so you can test prompts before writing code.

How do I get a Qwen3.6 Flash API key?

Create an EmpirioLabs account, then generate a key under API Keys in the dashboard. Billing is pay-as-you-go credits, so you only pay for the requests you make.