Beam vs Qwen 3.6 Flash: cost comparison
Prices updated 2026-11-05 · computed from live provider data
Short answer: Beam is cheaper on a
3:1 input/output blend — $0.438 per million tokens versus
$0.562, a 22% difference.
Beam offers the larger context window at 1,048,576 tokens, against 983,616 for Qwen 3.6 Flash.
Head to head
| Beam | Qwen 3.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Input, per 1M tokens | $0.250 | $0.250 |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $1.00 | $1.50 |
| Blended 3:1, per 1M | $0.438 | $0.562 |
| Context window | 1,048,576 | 983,616 |
| Vendor | nebius | empiriolabs |
Monthly cost at real volumes
| Workload (input / output) | Beam | Qwen 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| 1M in / 250K out | $0.500 | $0.625 |
| 10M in / 2.5M out | $5.00 | $6.25 |
| 100M in / 25M out | $50.00 | $62.50 |
Which should you pick?
Pick Beam when you need the longer context window (1,048,576 vs 983,616 tokens). Pick Beam when price per token dominates your workload — high-volume classification, extraction, or batch summarisation.