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Qwen3.6-27B

by Alibaba · 27B parameters

Current mid tier open weights mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.600

per 1M tokens

Output

$3.60

per 1M tokens

Blended

$1.35

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

How this price is scoped: Alibaba Model Studio International list price, single 0<Token≤256K tier, from the vendor's open-source Qwen table. No context-cache or batch rate is printed for this SKU, so cached input is left unset rather than assumed. Alibaba's own gateway endpoint quotes a lower routed rate of $0.45/$2.70. Alibaba's pricing page states that it lists standard prices only and directs buyers to the Model Studio console for current offers, and this SKU's row carries no discount label, so the standard list rate is the one tracked here — the same basis as every other Alibaba row on this site.

Source: official Alibaba pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-15

Price receipt

We read Alibaba's own pricing page on and found qwen3.6-27b listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 72f3ec2eb2.

Available on 2 hosts

cheapest blended first · $ per 1M tokens

Qwen3.6-27B is sold by 2 providers. Prices are per 1M tokens (blended = (3×input + 1×output) ÷ 4). The first-party row is the model maker; “vs first-party” shows each host’s blended price relative to it.

Qwen3.6-27B price on every host still selling it, per 1M tokens, cheapest blended first
Host Input Output Blended vs first-party
Groq details → $0.600 $3.00 $1.20 -11%
Alibaba first-party $0.600 $3.60 $1.35
Each host links to its provider page and official pricing. Prices refresh twice daily. MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-15

Overview

Qwen3.6-27B served by Alibaba, the model's maker, on Model Studio. $0.60/$3.60 per 1M tokens, a single 0–256K tier, with thinking-mode output billed at the same rate as non-thinking. Open weights, 256K-token context, text-only.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/5
Text Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 2/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Percentile vs all tracked models 35.7th2 independent measurements
Percentile per $/Mtok 26.4
GPQA Diamond vendor
87.8%
SWE-Bench Verified vendor
77.2%

Every per-benchmark score we hold for this model is reported by its own vendor, so none is counted toward an accuracy average or any ranking. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.

Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 21.9 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -20 (−100–100)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #106 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 2 independent measurements
  • Ranks #109 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar

Source: Artificial Analysis, Qwen model card · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Alibaba
Context window
262K tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
27B
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
mid-tieropen-weights

Availability verified: listed on Alibaba's own page