GPT-5.6 Terra vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

GPT-5.6 Terra at $1.15 in and $6.90 out and Qwen3.6 Max Preview at $1.18 in and $7.09 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

GPT-5.6 Terra

OpenAI

1.1¢

for a client proposal

$1.15 in · $6.90 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 1 month ago

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Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen

1.2¢

for a client proposal

$1.18 in · $7.09 out / 1M

262K context · released 3 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 2.3¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GPT-5.6 Terra at $1.15 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: GPT-5.6 Terra at $6.90 per million tokens.
Largest context: GPT-5.6 Terra at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

GPT-5.6 Terra

0.57¢

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

0.59¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

GPT-5.6 Terra

1.1¢

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

1.2¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

GPT-5.6 Terra

$0.21

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

$0.33

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

GPT-5.6 Terra

4.7¢

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

4.8¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

GPT-5.6 Terra

$0.31

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

$0.49

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

GPT-5.6 Terra

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

GPT-5.6 Terra

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Input / 1M tokens

$1.15

$1.18

Output / 1M tokens

$6.90

$7.09

Cached input / 1M

$0.115

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Web search

0.57¢ / search

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Specs

GPT-5.6 Terra

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Provider

OpenAI

Qwen

Released

1 month ago

3 months ago

Context window

1.05M

262K

Max output

128K

66K

Input

Files, Images, and Text

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2026-02-16

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

GPT-5.6 Terra

OpenAI

0.57¢

for this task

40% input · 60% output

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Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen

0.59¢

for this task

40% input · 60% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 1.2¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 428 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GPT-5.6 Terra has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, GPT-5.6 Terra is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 1.1¢.

For images or files, GPT-5.6 Terra can read them directly; Qwen3.6 Max Preview is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

GPT-5.6 Terra pricing →Qwen3.6 Max Preview pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.6 Terra or Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GPT-5.6 Terra at 1.1¢; Qwen3.6 Max Preview at 1.2¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GPT-5.6 Terra — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run GPT-5.6 Terra and Qwen3.6 Max Preview side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 2.3¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 2.3¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.