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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

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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 — and supports a 262,144-token context window.

The model is designed for agentic coding and reasoning tasks, with particular strength in repository-level code comprehension, front-end development workflows, and multi-step problem solving. It includes a built-in thinking mode for extended reasoning and preserves thinking context across conversation history. Qwen3.6 27B supports 201 languages and dialects and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0.30 / $2per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Apr 27, 2026

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Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

About Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

OpenRouter makes Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID qwen/qwen3.6-27b. Requests can be routed across 7 providers, including Chutes, SiliconFlow, Phala, DeepInfra, Venice, Alibaba Cloud Int. and CoreWeave, with automatic failover when an endpoint is unavailable.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B accepts text, images and video and returns text. It has a 262,144-token context window and a maximum output of 65,536 tokens.

On OpenRouter, Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B costs $0.30/M input tokens and $2.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.03/M tokens. Effective pricing can be lower when prompt caching applies. It was released on April 27, 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

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 — and supports a 262,144-token context window.

Qwen3.6 27B costs $0.30/M input tokens and $2.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.03/M tokens.

Qwen3.6 27B has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 65,536 completion tokens.

Yes. Qwen3.6 27B accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Qwen3.6 27B accepts text, images and video as input and returns text.

Qwen3.6 27B is served by 7 providers on OpenRouter: Chutes, SiliconFlow, Phala, DeepInfra, Venice, Alibaba Cloud Int. and CoreWeave. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

Qwen3.6 27B was released on April 27, 2026.

$0.30$2.00$0.031.87s26 tps
99.09%
$0.32$2.70$0.151.01s44 tps
99.84%
$0.32$3.20--0.72s35 tps
99.34%
$0.325$3.25--0.79s43 tps
99.32%
$0.45$2.70--0.98s33 tps
100.00%
$0.60$3.60$0.120.36s56 tps
100.00%
$0.30$3.20--3.82s15 tps
94.45%

Throughput

56tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.36s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto Benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-Bench
Chutes
81.4%77.7%
CoreWeave
83.2%74.9%
Venice
83.6%74.4%
SiliconFlow
83.6%74.2%
DeepInfra
84.1%70.2%
+6 more providers
Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.87%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.87%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.94%
Without Routing
94.21%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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