Qwen3.6 27B
Alibaba · Multimodal · Released Apr 2026
A 27-billion-parameter text model from Alibaba's Qwen3.6 generation with a 262K token context window.
- Strengths
- Offers a mid-range parameter count suited for handling complex text tasks while maintaining reasonable inference latency.
- Best for
- Text-based workloads that need more capability than the lightweight Flash tier but don't require the context window or multimodal support of larger Qwen3.6 variants.
- Limitations
- Text-only with a 262K token context window, positioning it below the 1M-token context of Qwen3.6 Plus and newer generations, and lacking multimodal inputs available in other Qwen3.6 models.
Input / 1M
$0.3
Output / 1M
$2.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.15
Context window
262K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in increased 15.6% out decreased 16.1%
- 90d
- in increased 3.8% out decreased 16.7%
- 1y
- in increased 3.8% out decreased 16.7%
- Since launch
- in increased 3.8% out decreased 16.7%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jul 2026 | $0.3 | $2.00 | $0.15 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 25 Jul 2026 | $0.289 | $2.40 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 24 Jul 2026 | $0.288 | $2.40 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Jul 2026 | $0.6 | $3.60 | $0.12 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 15 Jul 2026 | $0.45 | $2.70 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 14 Jul 2026 | $0.289 | $2.40 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 4 Jul 2026 | $0.285 | $2.40 | $0.15 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 1 Jul 2026 | $0.285 | $2.40 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 28 Jun 2026 | $0.2596 | $2.38 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 27 Jun 2026 | $0.2885 | $2.65 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 13 Jun 2026 | $0.2885 | $3.17 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.289 | $2.40 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |