Qwen3.6 27B specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Qwen3.6 27B
Author: Alibaba

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 3 · released Apr 22, 2026

Provider: Alibaba
Release date: Apr 22, 2026 · Pricing lists Apr 27, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 27.8B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text, Image, Video to Text; OpenRouter
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Context window: 262K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.45 in / $2.7 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 7 priced API routes · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing
Hardware: Estimate: about 56 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 28 GB at 8-bit, about 14 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 3 boards captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of
61	LiveBenchReasoning · as “qwen3.6-27b”	Reasoning	64.0%	64
73	GPQA DiamondReasoning · as “qwen3.6-27b”	Reasoning	85.9%	100
79	Epoch ECIReasoning · as “Qwen3.6 27B”	Reasoning	146.7	100

Versions and release history

21 versions in this line since Sep 17, 2024, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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