qwen3.6-plus for text generation, image and video understanding, tool calling, and structured output.
Key capabilities
- 1M-token context window — Process long documents, conversations, and multimodal context.
- 64K maximum output — Generate long-form answers, code, and structured results.
- Multimodal input — Accept text, images, and videos in the same conversation.
- Large media capacity — Up to 256 images and 64 videos in a request. Videos can be up to 2 hours or 2 GB.
- Function calling — Let the model select and call application-defined functions.
- Built-in tools — Use supported web search and code execution tools when enabled by the upstream service.
- Structured output — Request JSON output in non-thinking mode.
Quick example
cURL
Python
Image and video input
Use OpenAI-compatible content parts for remote media URLs or base64 data URIs. Qwen3.6-Plus accepts up to 256 images and 64 videos in a request.Thinking and structured output
Setenable_thinking through extra_body when using the OpenAI SDK. For structured output and tool-calling workflows, follow the upstream requirement to use non-thinking mode.
Function calling
Define application functions in thetools array. When the model returns tool_calls, execute the selected function in your application, append the tool result to messages, and send the conversation back to the model.
Streaming
Setstream to true to receive Server-Sent Events. Set stream_options.include_usage to true if the final chunk should include token usage.
Parameters
API Reference
Open the interactive API reference for Qwen3.6-Plus.