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Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen · released Apr 27, 2026

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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...

Specification

Context window
262K
Max output
262K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
27.8B
Licence
apache-2.0
Serving providers
9
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

37.7

85th percentile

Coding

53.7

Coding Index

Agentic

27.5

Agentic Index

Output speed

77 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

445ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.32

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    94.2%
  • GPQA Diamond
    84.2%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    73.3%
  • IFBench
    67.6%
  • SciCode
    39.8%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    34.8%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    23.1%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
τ²-bench (Telecom)94.2%
GPQA Diamond84.2%
AA-LCR (long context)73.3%
IFBench67.6%
SciCode39.8%
Terminal-Bench Hard34.8%
Humanity's Last Exam23.1%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
MiMo-V2.538.0
Grok 4.2038.0
Grok 4.337.9
Ling-3.0-flash37.8
Qwen3.6 27B37.7
GPT-5.137.5
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite37.4
Claude Sonnet 4.636.8

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence85th
Coding70th
Agentic52th
Terminal work80th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.6
Output / 1M tokens
$3.6
Cached input / 1M
$0.12
Blended 3:1
$1.35

One task, estimated

$0.32

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.