Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)

Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba · Released Apr 22, 2026 Specialist New
Intelligence #96 / 525
59.0 Our Score
Speed #172 / 244
63.2 tokens / sec
Input #360 / 525
$0.600 per 1M tokens
Output #406 / 525
$3.60 per 1M tokens
Context
Not reported

Analysis Summary

Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning) sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #96 of 525 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.600 input and $3.60 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market.

Editorial notes

Qwen3.6 27B Non-reasoning delivers strong reasoning benchmarks and a high tau2 score, with competitive instruction following, but limited coding capability keeps it from broader technical use. Priced accessibly at $0.60 input.

Assessed April 26, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence6.4Technical5.3Value6Content6
Intelligence 6.4/10
Technical 5.3/10
Content 6/10
Value 6/10

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

37.1 Intelligence Index
26.6 Coding Index
57.4 Agentic Index

This model was released recently. Independent benchmark evaluations are typically completed within days of release — these figures are preliminary and are likely to be updated as testing is finalised.

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 82.9% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 13.6% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 37.3% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 21.2% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 93.6% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 45.7% Instruction following
LCR 55% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

ProviderAlibaba
Release Date April 22, 2026
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.60 $0.000600
Output $3.60 $0.003600

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