Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

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 — and supports a 262,144-token context window.

The model is designed for agentic coding and reasoning tasks, with particular strength in repository-level code comprehension, front-end development workflows, and multi-step problem solving. It includes a built-in thinking mode for extended reasoning and preserves thinking context across conversation history. Qwen3.6 27B supports 201 languages and dialects and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0.2596 / $2.385per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Apr 27, 2026

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Effective Pricing

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Performance

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Benchmarks

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Activity

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Quick Start

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