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Qwen3.6 27B is a dense 27-billion-parameter language model from the Qwen Team at Alibaba, released in April 2026. It features hybrid multimodal capabilities — accepting text, image, and video inputs...

Modalities

TextImageVideoText

In / out price

$0.32 / $3.2 per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Apr 27, 2026

Why use Qwen3.6 27B

  • Understands images
  • Step-by-step reasoning mode
  • Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
  • Structured (JSON) outputs

Pricing

Input$0.32 / 1M tokens
Output$3.2 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Intelligence index21.4
Coding index53.7
Agentic index18.5

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

ModelPer runPer monthPer 1,000 runs
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B$0.0067$6.66$6.66

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

  • Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

262,144 tokens ≈ 395 pages

Fits: uses 46% of the window (room for 2× this much).

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