Qwen 3.6 27B
alibaba/qwen3.6-27b- Alibaba
- Family · Qwen3
- Released 22 Apr 2026
- Open weights
- Text · Image · Video → Text
- Tools · JSON · Vision
Spec & list price
Context256K
Max output64K
Input / 1M$0.45
Output / 1M$2.706× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence21.4#129/489
Coding53.7#59/196
Usage
Tokens / day2.0B▼ 6.0% 7d
Usage rank#155
Requests / day158.0K
Tool calls / req0.14
Per request · 30 days
Avg input4.9K0.3× median
Avg output741about median
Cache hit21%0.3× median
Reasoning share63%1.1× median
Tool-call failures4.2%2.2× median
Consumption
Peak 5.1B 6 OctLow 630.9M 4 OctRank today #155
News & trends
5 mentions this week ▼ 29%this model · videos, posts, articles · 30 days
Trending · 14 days · Qwen3 family
- Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard453 upvotes
- Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard416 points
- Neuron Explorer for Qwen3.5-4B: See every neuron at work, make targeted edits26 points
- New Card for Qwen3.8 27b and MiniMax H3632 upvotes
- Qwen 3.8 27B vs Strata Coder - Local LLM battle75.2K views
- DavidAU Qwen3.8 27B Turbo Brilliance 50X-Reasoning... tested - Local LLM setup87.7K views
News · latest from Qwen3
- Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hardgithub.com · 31 Oct
- Neuron Explorer for Qwen3.5-4B: See every neuron at work, make targeted editsgithub.com · 26 Oct
- How to train your own Jev for $17Together AI · 23 Sep
Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across 7 providers, latest day
Output speed#246/33446 tok/s1.4× slower than median
Fastest provider59 tok/sbest of 7 providers
First token#1691.05 sabout median
#21 cheapest of 29 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Family progress
Intelligence Index
- Family releases33.7
Technical details
- Tokenizer
- Qwen3
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Parameters
- 27.8B
- Moderation
- none
- Downloads · likes
- 2.3M · 2.3K
Request parameters 19
- tools
- tool_choice
- response_format
- structured_outputs
- reasoning
- include_reasoning
- temperature
- top_p
- top_k
- min_p
+9 more
- max_tokens
- stop
- seed
- frequency_penalty
- logit_bias
- logprobs
- presence_penalty
- repetition_penalty
- top_logprobs
When to use
Best for
- Coding agents with terminal and tool use
- Strict instruction following
- Long-context reasoning over documents
- Image and video understanding
- Self-hosted deployments (open weights)
Think twice for
- New projects (usage is declining)
- Image or video generation
- Audio tasks
- Very long single outputs
Research papers
- Teach reality, not ethics: a drop-in continued-pretraining corpus installs coupled human-biosphere-AI welfare dispositions across model families27 Oct
- MTA-Zero: Self-Improving Multimodal Deep Search via Online QA-Solver Co-training24 Oct
- Building Presentation Intelligence for High-Quality Slide Generation22 Oct
- Joules-to-GDP: How Much Economic Value Do AI Systems Produce per Unit of Energy?22 Oct
- RAG-NIMBF: A Non-Invasive, Modular Benchmarking Framework for Automated RAG Configuration Analysis20 Oct
- Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model17 Oct
- Releasing the Inner Jev: A Simple Recipe for Open Decision Models12 Oct
- ClawLoop: Self-Improving Agents via Harness-Native Training Loop9 Oct
Social
Most watched and discussed · 90 days
- [2/3] Qwen 3.6 27B on Acer DGX Spark GN100 128GB NVFP4 vs M5 Ultra Mac Studio 256GB 4BITElite Test Engineering · 1.5K views · 22 Oct
- Qwen 3.8 27B vs Qwen 3.6 27B on RTX 5090: Is the Upgrade Real?Laxmi Kant | KGP Talkie · 1.5K views · 31 Oct
- [1.2] Qwen ***3.6*** 27B on RTX 4090 24GB vs M5 Ultra Mac Studio 256GB - no optimizationElite Test Engineering · 1.4K views · 27 Oct
- [1/3] Qwen 3.6 27B 4Bit on Mac Mini M5 Pro 48GB vs M5 Ultra Mac Studio 256Elite Test Engineering · 679 views · 22 Oct
- [3/3] Qwen 3.6 27B DGX Spark (FP8) vs Acer DGX GN100 (NVFP4) vs Mac Mini M5 Pro 48GB (FP4)Elite Test Engineering · 553 views · 23 Oct
- Qwen 3.8 27B vs Qwen 3.6 27B on RTX 5090: Is the Upgrade Real? | Kaun Jeeta?Laxmi Kant - KGP Talkie Hindi · 185 views · 30 Oct
- M3.1 Flash vs Qwen3.6 27B — speed tier vs self-hosted flagshipAI Tools & Hacks · 1 views · 1 Nov
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