Get Qwen 3.6 Plus API Key FREE | Best OpenAI/Claude Alternative for Developers

Summary

The video demonstrates how to get and use a free Qwen 3.6 Plus API key through Dialagram’s Nexum Router. The presenter says the service requires no credit card or paid subscription.

What the video covers

• Qwen 3 is described as Alibaba’s large language model, supporting reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks.
• Dialagram’s Nexum Router provides an OpenAI-compatible API gateway. The presenter says its free model options include Qwen 3.5 Plus, Qwen 3.5 Plus Thinking, Qwen 3.6 Plus, and Qwen 3.6 Plus Thinking.
• The tutorial shows how to sign up with an email and password, generate an API key, and copy the gateway’s base URL and a model ID.
• In the OpenCode desktop app, the presenter adds Qwen as a custom provider by entering a provider ID, display name, base URL, API key, and model ID.
• To test the setup, they ask the model to create a simple HTML “Hello World” file.

The video is a practical setup guide, not a performance comparison or review of Qwen against OpenAI or Claude.

Main speaker/source: Code With Yousaf Service shown: Dialagram’s Nexum Router