Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview Lands on OpenRouter — 1M Context, Free Tier, 400M Tokens in First 48 Hours
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Alibaba's next-gen Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview appeared on OpenRouter March 30 with a 1-million-token context window, mandatory chain-of-thought reasoning, and tool use support — completely free. In its first 48 hours it processed 400M+ completion tokens across ~400K requests. Designed as a flagship preview, it targets agentic coding and front-end development, performing at or above leading SOTA models on coding benchmarks.