Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

qwen · Released Feb 25, 2026 Professional
Intelligence #43 / 523
74.1 Our Score
Speed #124 / 236
87.6 tokens / sec
Input #246 / 523
$0.195 per 1M tokens
Output #334 / 523
$1.56 per 1M tokens
Context #78 / 523
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #43 of 523 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.195 input and $1.56 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

Qwen3.5-27B is a capable multimodal model supporting text, image, and video inputs with strong reasoning and good instruction-following at a competitive price point. Its agentic performance is solid and the 262K context window is workable, though Western business support for Qwen/Alibaba models may be a consideration.

Assessed April 24, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence7.3Technical7Value7.5Content7
Intelligence 7.3/10
Technical 7/10
Content 7/10
Value 7.5/10

The Qwen3.5 27B native vision-language Dense model incorporates a linear attention mechanism, delivering fast response times while balancing inference speed and performance. Its overall capabilities are comparable to those of..

27B Parameters

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

42.1 Intelligence Index
34.9 Coding Index
63.3 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 85.8% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 22.2% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 39.5% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 32.6% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 93.9% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 75.6% Instruction following
LCR 67.3% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID qwen/qwen3.5-27b
Providerqwen
Release Date February 25, 2026
Context Length262,144 tokens
Max Completion65,536 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.20 $0.000195
Output $1.56 $0.001560

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

99.9%
Avg Uptime
501ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
28 tok/s
Best Throughput
4/4
Active Endpoints
Available via: Alibaba, AtlasCloud, Phala, Novita

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