Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
Qwen3.6 27B by alibaba is offered by 28 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 25 of them. Its official list price is $0.60 per 1M input tokens and $3.60 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is CrofAI at $0.20 / $1.50 per 1M, about 3.0× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 2 free ($0) channels; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 37.7 on the Intelligence Index, with 53.7 for coding and 27.5 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.525 per 1M, that is roughly 72 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 55 tokens per second, with 3.77s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.2918, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 32,768 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, Video, Audio, and PDF. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pendra qwen3.6:27b | Gateway | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | ||
| 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 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.30 | $2.00 | $0.03 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Chutes Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B-TEE | Cloud | $0.30 | $2.00 | $0.03 | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.289 | $2.40 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| 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.
2 more channels offer $0 (Pendra, QVAC); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
| 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.
9 / 28 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).