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Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks

qwen3.6-27b
Type
Text
Quality
73 · Top 27% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
65,536 tokens
Input price
$0.60 / 1M tokens
Output price
$3.60 / 1M tokens
Cache read
—
Cache write
—
Parameters
28B (27,781,427,952)
Downloads
2.3M in the last 30 days
Likes
2.3K
Access to weights
Open download
Released
Apr 22, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
—
Takes in
Text, Image, Audio, Video
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
Yes
File attachments
Yes
Access
Open weights
License
Apache 2.0
Rarity
Uncommon
Set number
888/1044
Open Qwen docsWeights on Hugging FaceQuality 73Where to run it 27Evolution 7/8Race it 47 tok/sMeet its creatureBattle Gemini 3.8 Flash

License read from the model’s Hugging Face card. Specs from models.dev, downloads from Hugging Face, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: www.alibabacloud.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Qwen3.6 27B, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 27% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #76.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

24 providers sell Qwen3.6 27B through an API, and 3 Hugging Face hosts serve it. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
PendraFreeqwen3.6:27bFreeFree262K
QVACFreeqwen3.6-27bFreeFree262K
PioneerCheapest paidQwen/Qwen3.6-27B$0.60$0.6033K
STACKITQwen/Qwen3.6-27B$0.53$0.76262K
CrofAIqwen3.6-27b$0.20$1.50262K
OpenRouterqwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.25$2.00262K
NanoGPTqwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.20$2.24262K
EmpirioLabs AIqwen3-6-27b$0.41$2.48256K
Merge Gatewayqwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.41$2.48256K
Ofoxqwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.43$2.57256K
Show 14 more providers
ProviderInputOutputContext
Kilo Gatewayqwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.45$2.70262K
Groqqwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.60$3.00131K
Cortecsqwen3.6-27b$0.45$3.01262K
OVHcloud AI Endpointsqwen3.6-27b$0.47$3.19262K
SiliconFlowQwen/Qwen3.6-27B$0.30$3.20262K
AbacusQwen/Qwen3.6-27B$0.32$3.20262K
ai&qwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.32$3.20262K
Ambientqwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.32$3.2033K
Deep InfraQwen/Qwen3.6-27B$0.32$3.20262K
Venice AIqwen3-6-27b$0.33$3.25256K
Synthetichf:Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B$0.45$3.60262K
AlibabaOfficialqwen3.6-27b$0.60$3.60262K
Novita AIqwen/qwen3.6-27b$0.60$3.60262K
Vercel AI Gatewayalibaba/qwen3.6-27b$0.60$3.60256K

Hugging Face Inference Providers

HostInputOutputContextSpeedFirst token
OVHcloudTools$0.47$3.19262K28 tok/s1.8s
DeepInfraFastestTools$0.32$3.20262K47 tok/s0.8s
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From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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