Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #36 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.320 input and $3.20 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 pairs near-frontier reasoning (intelligence index 45.8) with strong agentic and instruction-following scores, vision and video support, tool use, and a 262K context at $0.32 input.
Assessed May 14, 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
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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 | 81,920 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.32 | $0.000320 |
| Output | $3.20 | $0.003200 |
Live Performance
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