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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B is a large language model from Qwen. It costs $0.300 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. Its context window is 262K tokens.

ReasoningTool callingStructured outputPrompt cachingOpen weightsimage inputvideo input
Input / 1M tokens
$0.300
Output / 1M tokens
$2.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.030

On repeated prefixes

Context window
262K

tokens

Who serves it cheapest

6 hosts serve Qwen3.6 27B. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.

Providers serving Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B, cheapest first
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MContextThroughputUptime 24h
ChutesCheapestfp8$0.300$2.00262K-98.2%
Phala$0.320$2.70262K-96.5%
Alibaba$0.450$2.70262K-100.0%
SiliconFlowfp8$0.300$3.20262K-92.2%
DeepInfrafp8$0.320$3.20262K-97.0%
Venicefp8$0.325$3.25256K-92.7%

The spread between Chutes and Venice is 1.5× for identical weights. Quantization and context limits differ, so check both columns before switching.

Benchmarks

Independent scores published alongside the catalogue.

Intelligence index
21.9
Coding index
53.7
Agentic index
20.1

About Qwen3.6 27B

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...

Specifications

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B specifications
Model IDqwen/qwen3.6-27b
ProviderQwen
Context window262K tokens
Max output66K tokens
Input modalitiestext, image, video
Output modalitiestext
Knowledge cutoff-
Open weightsYes - Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B
ReleasedApril 27, 2026

Cheaper alternatives

Models that cost less than Qwen3.6 27B while keeping at least half its context window and every input modality it supports.

Frequently asked

How much does Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B cost?

$0.300 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. Cached input reads cost $0.030 per million tokens.

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

262K tokens, with up to 66K tokens of output per request.

Which provider serves Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B cheapest?

Chutes at $0.300 per million input tokens - 1.5× cheaper than Venice, the most expensive of the 6 hosts serving it.

Confirm against the source: Qwen official pricing.