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Alibaba · Qwen3.6

Qwen3.6-27B

Open weightsSupersededApache-2.0

Previous dense 27B open Qwen, superseded by Qwen3.8-27B (same size, Apache-2.0, higher scores).

AA Intelligence
21#64 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.60/ $3.60
Output speed
59tok/s
Context window
262K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#64 of 142
    21independentv4.3.2, reasoningArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#67 of 88
    0%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#48 of 103
    63.4%vendorTerminal-Bench 2.1, Terminus (Qwen3.6-27B column in the Qwen3.8-27B card)Qwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗
    60.7%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1, reasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#63 of 94
    42.8%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • SWE-bench Pro#22 of 31
    53.5%vendorQwen3.6-27B column in the Qwen3.8-27B cardQwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 89.9%

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#12 of 88
    94.2%independenttelecom, reasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

  • GDPval-AA#56 of 103
    973independentGDPval-AA v2.1, reasoningArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#61 of 142
    84.2%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#66 of 147
    23.1%independentreasoning, no tools, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#70 of 139
    1.1%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#50 of 139
    77.3%independentreasoning, AA-LCRArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#38 of 72
    74.6%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
IFBench (AA) · reasoning67.6%independentArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · reasoning34.8%independentArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

Specs

Released
April 22, 2026
Parameters
27.8B
Size class
10 to 40B
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Context
262K tokens
Max output
Not published
Blended 70/30
$1.50 / 1M
First token
3.65s
  • Price: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (Singapore / International) ↗ Hosted qwen3.6-27b on Model Studio (International), 0-256K tier.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) ↗

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