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Qwen3.6-27B

Qwen3.6-27B is an AI model made by Alibaba Tongyi. Alibaba Tongyi released it on 22 April 2026. It is generally available.

Alibaba Tongyi

Qwen3.6-27B is an AI model made by Alibaba Tongyi. Alibaba Tongyi released it on 22 April 2026. It is generally available. It takes text, image, video and returns text. Its context window is 262,144 tokens. Its longest answer is 65,536 tokens. Its weights are open. Its licence is Apache-2.0.

Released
22 April 2026 — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Status
Generally available — help.aliyun.com, read 16 October 2026
Takes
Text, Image, Video — help.aliyun.com, read 16 October 2026
Returns
Text — help.aliyun.com, read 16 October 2026
Open weights
Yes — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Licence
Apache-2.0 — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Context window
262,144 tokens — help.aliyun.com, read 16 October 2026
Longest answer
65,536 tokens — help.aliyun.com, read 16 October 2026
Knowledge cutoff
Not confirmed: The maker's model card and model information page do not print a knowledge-cutoff date.
API price, input
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 4.49652 and 0.412564
API price, output
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 26.97912 and 2.475384
Where
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: api, weights, cloud and api, weights, app
Parameters
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 27000000000 and 27
Model card
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026

Benchmarks

Measured by others, not by the maker: each score with the name the measurer gives the model and the setting it ran, its day and its licence.

Epoch AI

Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’, epoch.ai/benchmarks, CC BY 4.0: Epoch AI’s own runs and its Capabilities Index. Data · CC BY 4.0

Questions

When was Qwen3.6-27B released?

Alibaba Tongyi released Qwen3.6-27B on 22 April 2026.

Is Qwen3.6-27B still available?

Yes: it is generally available, as Alibaba Tongyi states it.

What is the context window of Qwen3.6-27B?

The context window of Qwen3.6-27B is 262,144 tokens, as Alibaba Tongyi prints it.

Are the weights of Qwen3.6-27B open?

Yes: Alibaba Tongyi publishes the weights of Qwen3.6-27B for download.

What is the licence of Qwen3.6-27B?

The licence of Qwen3.6-27B is Apache-2.0, as Alibaba Tongyi names it.

What does Qwen3.6-27B take and return?

Qwen3.6-27B takes text, image, video and returns text.

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Sources

  1. GitHub - QwenLM/Qwen3.8 (read 16 October 2026)
  2. Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B (read 16 October 2026)
  3. qwen3.6-27b Model Info - Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (read 16 October 2026)

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