---
title: "OpenRouter qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview and 13 more expire 2026-10-09 | Harbyn"
description: "OpenRouter qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview and 13 more expire 2026-10-09."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-25-qwen-qwen3-6-max-preview-expires-2026-10-09"
last-updated: 2026-09-25
---

# OpenRouter qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview and 13 more expire 2026-10-09

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-25-qwen-qwen3-6-max-preview-expires-2026-10-09>.

Retirement - OpenRouter. high severity. In effect.

The OpenRouter models API lists an expiration date of 2026-10-09 for qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview, qwen/qwen3-max-thinking, qwen/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct, qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking, qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct, qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking, qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking, qwen/qwen3-max, qwen/qwen3-coder-plus, qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28, qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507, qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507, qwen/qwen3-8b, qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b. After that date requests to these model ids are expected to fail on OpenRouter. No replacement is listed by the API.

The deadline passed on Oct 9, 2026.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [OpenRouter](https://harbyn.com/vendors/openrouter.md) |
| Product | models |
| Kind | Retirement |
| Severity | high |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Sep 25, 2026 (undated by the vendor; the day it first appeared) |
| Effective | Oct 9, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Sep 25, 2026 |
| Lead time | 14 days of warning |
| Model IDs | `qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview`, `qwen/qwen3-max-thinking`, `qwen/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct`, `qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking`, `qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct`, `qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking`, `qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking`, `qwen/qwen3-max`, `qwen/qwen3-coder-plus`, `qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28`, `qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507`, `qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507`, `qwen/qwen3-8b`, `qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b` |
| Review | Automated, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

The scanner reads your repository on your machine and reports every file and line that uses the identifiers above. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models> (spec, fetched 2026-09-25 17:17 UTC, sha256 `49b44d1c2e4cf4f7349462318fa3943080a1a9660cc4d9a3236a4d556e9cefb5`)

## Related changes

### More from OpenRouter

- [google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-25-google-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Sep 25, 2026)
- [inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-25-inclusionai-ling-3-0-flash-vl-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Sep 25, 2026)
- [nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-25-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Sep 25, 2026)
- [qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-25-qwen-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Sep 25, 2026)

### Changes at other vendors

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- [Mistral AI: Z.ai GLM 5.2 (zai-glm-5-2) retires on Mistral on October 31, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/mistral/2026-09-29-z-ai-glm-5-2-deprecated-and-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026)
- [Fireworks AI: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 retires from Serverless Training November 2](https://harbyn.com/changes/fireworks/2026-10-18-upcoming-serverless-training-deprecation-deepseek-v4-flash-0731.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026)
- [GitHub: GitHub Actions: macOS 14 runner image retired on November 2, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-01-github-actions-macos-14-runner-image-retirement.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026)

[All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)