> Qwen3.6 27B is an open-weights AI model from Alibaba, released 22 Apr 2026. Index score 145 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 71 of 229 ranked models. API price $0.32 in / $3.2 out per million tokens, 262K context.

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# Qwen3.6 27B

Alibaba

Released 22 Apr 2026

Open

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145133–157

Index score

#71 of 229 models

2/ 8

Core tests taken

2 of 6 areas · plus 5 anchor tests

−26

Versus the frontier at release

best then: GPT-5.4

Replaced by [Qwen3.8-27B](https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen3-8-27b/)

$0.32/ $3.2

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

262K

Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

o3 reached this score 12 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 5 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

86%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

35%

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

evidence

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#71

of 219 · 145

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#68

of 239 · 146.5

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 at · top three among current models

Replaced by Qwen3.8-27B; 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 it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

Qwen Chat

app · subscription

↗

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

API

↗

#### API providers · 6 · per million tokens, in / out

C

Chutes

$0.30 / $2.0 · fp8

cheapest

P

Phala

$0.32 / $2.7

↗

A

Alibaba

$0.45 / $2.7

↗

S

SiliconFlow

$0.30 / $3.2 · fp8

↗

D

DeepInfra

$0.32 / $3.2 · fp8

↗

V

Venice

$0.33 / $3.25 · fp8

↗

#### Run it yourself

🤗

Official weights

Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B

↗

Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

22 Apr 2026

Announcement

not linked yet

Release entry

–

Scored as

Qwen3.6 27B

Artificial Analysis index

–

Output speed

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Hugging Face

[Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B ↗](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B)

## Alibaba releases · around this one

Qwen

Closed

11 APR 2023

Tongyi Qianwen

Closed

11 APR 2023

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen3-6-27b/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01