Qwen3.6 Max Preview deprecated, retires 2026-10-09

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.

QW▲ Retiring soon Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba Qwen · qwen3.6-max-preview Released2026-04-20 Retires2026-10-09in 14d qwentext262k context66k max out also matches: qwen3.6-max-preview alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview provider announcement → https://models.dev/alibaba/qwen3.6-max-preview Does your code call Qwen3.6 Max Preview? $ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded. Get alerted before it retires → https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up