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Qwen3.6 27B
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.6-27b·BETA·Open weights·qwen series
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
At a glance
Official price$0.60 / $3.60 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba
Lowest paid$0.20 / $1.50
CrofAI Gateway · 3× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 32,768–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImageVideoAudioPDF
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-04-22 / 2026-04-22
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning
Intelligence37.7
Value72
Coding53.7
Agentic27.5
Output speed55 tok/s
TTFT3.74 s
Cost per task$0.2918
Value formulaIQ 37.7 ÷ min blended $0.525 = 72
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 31.3 · 55 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 37.7 · 55 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 26 providers24 with public prices · 1 free
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QVAC | Gateway | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | ||
| CrofAI | Gateway | $0.20 | $1.50 | $0.04 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| STACKIT Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B | Cloud | $0.53 | $0.76 | — | — | 262,144 | 16,384 | |
| Pioneer Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B | Gateway | $0.60 | $0.60 | $0.60 | $0.60 | 32,768 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.203 | $2.24 | $0.102 | — | 260,096 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Vultr Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B | Cloud | $0.30 | $2.00 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.289 | $2.40 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| EmpirioLabs AI qwen3-6-27b | Gateway | $0.413 | $2.48 | $0.413 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.45 | $2.70 | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| SiliconFlow Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B | Cloud | $0.30 | $3.20 | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $0.60 | $3.60 | — | — | 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
1CrofAI$95.80
2NanoGPT$140.42
3STACKIT$144.00
4Pioneer$150.00
5Vultr$160.00
6Merge Gateway$177.80
22Alibaba · Official$300.00
1 more channels offer $0 (QVAC); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to CrofAI to save $204.20/mo (68%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark1 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Verified | — | 77.2 | resolved | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhighToggle (on / off)effort = maxbudget_tokens ≥ 1 ≤ 131,072effort = minimaleffort = default
7 / 26 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
Related models
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended