Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #52 of 525 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.500 input and $2.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) from Alibaba reaches 45.8 on the intelligence index with top-tier agentic performance, strong instruction following, and good long-context reasoning; the -4 regional accessibility adjustment applies.
Assessed April 26, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen3.6 27B is a dense 27-billion-parameter language model from the Qwen Team at Alibaba, released in April 2026. It features hybrid multimodal capabilities — accepting text, image, and video inputs..
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Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
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.
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3.6-27b
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | April 27, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 65,536 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.50 | $0.000500 |
| Output | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
