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Qwen3.5 27B
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.5-27b·GA·Open weights·qwen series
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
At a glance
Official price$0.30 / $2.40 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba
Lowest paid$0.086 / $0.688
OrcaRouter Gateway · 3.5× spread
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 256,000–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImageVideoAudio
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-02-23 / 2026-02-23
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning
Intelligence34.6
Value146
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed77 tok/s
TTFT5.58 s
Value formulaIQ 34.6 ÷ min blended $0.236 = 146
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 30 · 82 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 34.6 · 77 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 15 providers15 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.086 | $0.688 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.086 | $0.688 | $0.017 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| EmpirioLabs AI qwen3-5-27b | Gateway | $0.086 tiered >128K: $0.258 | $0.688 | $0.086 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.195 | $1.56 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.195 | $1.56 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| SiliconFlow Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B | Cloud | $0.25 | $2.00 | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| Ofox | Gateway | $0.29 | $2.05 | $0.29 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.27 | $2.16 | $0.135 | — | 260,096 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Requesty | Gateway | $0.234 | $2.34 | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| Mixlayer | Gateway | $0.30 | $2.40 | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $0.30 | $2.40 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Merge Gateway$43.34
2OrcaRouter$51.60
3EmpirioLabs AI$51.60
4OpenRouter$117.00
5Kilo Gateway$117.00
6NanoGPT$145.80
13Alibaba · Official$180.00
Switch to Merge Gateway to save $136.66/mo (76%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark1 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Verified | — | 72.4 | resolved | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)effort = noneeffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = maxbudget_tokens
3 / 15 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended