Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 236K output tokens, available from 9 providers, starting at $0.15 / 1M input and $0.5 / 1M output. A dense vision-language model in the Qwen3 series with 27B parameters, offering improvements in agentic coding, STEM reasoning, and multimodal inference over its predecessor.
| Benchmarks | |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | #77 |
| Coding Index | #53 |
| GPQA | #105 |
| HLE | #103 |
| IFBench | #81 |
| Time to First Token | #513 |
| SciCode | #149 |
| LCR | #55 |
| TerminalBench Hard | #68 |
| TAU2 | #36 |
| Output TPS | #194 |
Capabilities
Input4/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video✓
PDF✓
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching✓
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | Batch | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Cache Read $ / 1M | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.6 | $3.60 | N/A | $0.3 | $1.80 | |
| $0.32 | $3.20 | N/A | — | — | |
| $0.6 | $3.00 | N/A | — | — | |
| $0.47 | $3.19 | N/A | — | — | |
| $0.15 | $0.5 | N/A | — | — | |
| $0.6 | $3.60 | N/A | — | — | |
| $0.6 | $3.60 | $0.12 | — | — | |
| $0.6 | $3.60 | N/A | — | — | |
| $0.6 | $3.60 | $0.12 | — | — | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3.6 27B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 65 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard_NP20s |  Azure | 2× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB) | 128 GB | $3.30/hr | ||
| g7e.2xlarge |  AWS | RTX PRO Server 6000 | 96 GB | $3.36/hr | ||
| Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 | Azure | NVIDIA A100 | 80 GB | $3.67/hr | ||
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | 1.0M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Available | |
| Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Filetrans | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Streaming | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime | — | — | $0.450 | $4.50 | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime | — | — | $0.800 | $6.40 | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTS | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen Image 3 | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen Image 3.0 Pro | — | — | — | — | Available |
| EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 262K | $0.150 | $0.500 | Current |