Qianwen 3.6Plus model tops the global model call ranking

2026-04-04 11:57

On April 4th, it was announced that the newly released Qwen3.6-Plus model by Qianwen, which has only been released for one day, has topped the daily chart of OpenRouter, a globally renowned API calling platform for large models, becoming the most popular large model among enterprises and developers at present. According to official data from OpenRouter, the daily call volume of Qwen3.6-Plus has exceeded 1.4 trillion tokens, breaking the global record for single day single model call volume on the platform.

Image caption: OpenRouter social media official announcement screenshot, stating that Qwen3.6-Plus broke records and is the "strongest new model performance"

OpenRouter is the world's largest AI big model API aggregation platform, Claude?GPT? Famous models at home and abroad, such as Qianwen, DeepSeek, GLM, etc., all provide model API calling services on the OpenRouter third-party platform. OpenRouter has formed a ranking of large model call volume by analyzing the consumption of tokens by developers and enterprises for the "real gold and silver" of large models. This ranking is often seen as a battlefield for global big models, reflecting the true market popularity of big models.

On the morning of April 2nd, Alibaba released the strongest domestic programming model Qwen3.6-Plus, achieving breakthroughs in programming and intelligent agent capabilities. In the programming ability sub list of the internationally renowned arena Arena, Qwen3.6-Plus preview version ranks first in China, making Alibaba the second AI organization in the world in terms of programming ability.

With its strong performance, Qianwen 3.6 has sparked a global trend in application access. On the evening of April 2nd, Qwen3.6-Plus officially launched OpenRouter, with a sharp increase in call volume of 711%. The daily call volume exceeded 1.4 trillion tokens and topped the daily chart. At the same time, it also broke the previous record for single day calls, significantly raising the upper limit. OpenRouter officially pointed out that the daily call volume of Qwen3.6-Plus exceeded 1.4 trillion tokens, breaking the platform's global record and representing the "strongest new model performance" in history. In the global AI community, developers share the integration of Qwen3.6-Plus into their own crayfish, using Qianwen 3.6 to achieve complex tasks through "atmosphere programming", allowing Qianwen to directly generate usable websites, games, and mini programs with stunning results.

In the past week, Alibaba has successively released the full modal model Qwen3.5-Omni, the text generated image model Wan2.7-Image, and the new generation big language model Qwen3.6-Plus, covering multiple fields such as multimodality, visual generation, programming, and intelligent agents, sparking a "thousand question whirlwind". It is reported that Qianwen will soon release its flagship model Qwen-3.6-Max for the 3.6 series.

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