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# Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B: $0.600/M in, $3.60/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen · released 2026-04-27

 $1.35 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## 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](/models/deepseek__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 |
| --- | --- |
| 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 |
| --- | --- |
| 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...