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Apr 2, 2026
Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary AI model in just a few days. The model is available through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API and offers a context window of one million tokens. According to the Qwen team, the focus is on significantly improved capabilities for agentic coding, including frontend development and complex code tasks.
In benchmarks published by Alibaba, the model partially outperforms Anthropic's older flagship model Claude 4.5 Opus, which was replaced by the stronger 4.6 Opus in December 2025. It's worth noting that some of these measurements were conducted by Alibaba itself.
Qwen3.6-Plus outperforms the older 3.5 model and in some cases beats Opus. However, the Opus 4.6 released in December 2025 scores 65.4 percent on Terminal-Bench 2.0, putting it ahead of Qwen3.6-Plus. | Image: Alibaba
