alibaba/qwen3.6-27bOpen WeightsQwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
Benchmark Pricing$0.60 / 1M in$3.60 / 1M out
Context: 262,144 tokens•Max Output: 65,536 tokens•Released: 2026-04-22
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Context Window262,144262.1K tokens
Max Output65,53665.5K tokens
LicenseOpen SourceSelf-hostable
Input Modalities
TextVisionVideo
Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)
Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema
MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS
✓ Qwen3.6 27B natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.
MCP Context Window Recommendations
With a context capacity of 262,144 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.
STANDARDIZED BENCHMARKS & EVALS
SWE-Bench Verifiedresolved
77.2API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE
// Example: Calling Qwen3.6 27B via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.ALIBABA_API_KEY,
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "alibaba/qwen3.6-27b",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);PRICING BY PROVIDER
Alibabaqwen3.6-27b
$0.60 / $3.60
Cortecsqwen3.6-27b
$0.45 / $3.01
NanoGPTqwen/qwen3.6-27b
$0.20 / $2.24$0.10 cache
Novita AIqwen/qwen3.6-27b
$0.60 / $3.60
ai&qwen/qwen3.6-27b
$0.32 / $3.20$0.20 cache
Synthetichf:Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B
$0.45 / $3.60$0.45 cache
LLM Gatewaygreenference/qwen3.6-27b
$0.15 / $1.35
QVACqwen3.6-27b
$0.00 / $0.00
Thinking MachinesQwen/Qwen3.6-27B
$1.86 / $5.59$0.37 cache
AbacusQwen/Qwen3.6-27B
$0.32 / $3.20
Vercel AI Gatewayalibaba/qwen3.6-27b
$0.60 / $3.60
Ofoxbailian/qwen3.6-27b
$0.60 / $3.60
Merge Gatewayqwen/qwen3.6-27b
$0.41 / $2.48
Hugging FaceQwen/Qwen3.6-27B
$0.47 / $3.19
Kilo Gatewayqwen/qwen3.6-27b
$0.45 / $2.70
Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.
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