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Qwen3.5-27B

AlibabaReleased 24 Feb 2026Open weights
141122–159Index scoreProvisional · results in fewer than three areas so far; not ranked yet
0/ 9Core tests taken0 of 6 areas · plus 3 anchor tests
−28Versus the frontier at releasebest then: Claude Opus 4.6Replaced by Qwen3.6 27B
$0.20/ $1.56Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
262KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

801001201401601802002023202420252026GPT-4 at launch = 100Qwen3.5-27B

Gemini 2.5 Pro reached this score 11 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeno evidence yet
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)
no result
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsno evidence yet
FrontierMath (tiers 1-3)
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench 4.0
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Professional workno evidence yet
Finance Agent (v2)
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from Epoch AI, Vals AI, LiveBench, ARC Prize, Scale AI and other testers, at the model’s best standard setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above. Hover a bar for who ran it.

What others sayrank on 8 leaderboards

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by Qwen3.6 27B; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 5 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released24 Feb 2026
Announcementnot linked yet
Release entry–
Scored asQwen3.5-27B
Output speed–

Alibaba releasesaround this one