{"slug": "qwen3-6-max-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "title": "Qwen3.6 Max Preview deprecated, retires 2026-10-09", "summary": "Alibaba's Qwen3.6 Max Preview model, released 2026-04-20, is deprecated and retires on 2026-10-09, according to a provider announcement tracked by models.dev. The qwen3.6-max-preview model offers a 262k context window with 66k max output, and the deprecation notice is being surfaced by the llmstatus.ai tool, which scans repositories to flag models on a retirement clock.", "body_md": "QW▲ Retiring soon\n\n# Qwen3.6 Max Preview\n\nAlibaba (Qwen) · qwen3.6-max-preview\n\nReleased2026-04-20\n\nRetires2026-10-09in 14d\n\nqwentext262k context66k max out\n\nalso matches: \n\n`qwen3.6-max-preview`` alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview`\n[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview)\n\nDoes your code call Qwen3.6 Max Preview?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status` in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-6-max-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/alibaba/alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview", "published_at": "2026-09-25 18:00:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-25 19:00:00.028305+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "developer-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen3.6 Max Preview", "models.dev", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-6-max-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-6-max-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-6-max-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-6-max-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.jsonld"}}