Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen released 2026-04-27
$1.35 per million tokens, balanced
MiniMax M3 is both better and cheaper.
It scores +7.7 higher and costs 61% less ($0.525/M against $1.35/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is cheaper still (92% less) but drops no image, video input.
Every price dimension
| Input | $0.600/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $3.60/M |
| Cached input | $0.120/M |
Independent scores
| Intelligence | 37.7 |
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| Coding | 53.7 |
| Agentic | 27.5 |
Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.
Capability
| Context window | 262K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
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| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
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...