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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score32.835.5
Input Price$0.32/M$0.20/M
Output Price$2.70/M$1.56/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output262,14065,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index35.437.8

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BQwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 135 135
Code Review 133 133
Code Completion 129 129
Code Refactoring 133 133
Bug Fixing 137 137
Unit Test Generation 125 125
Code Documentation 129 129
Regex Writing 122 123
CI/CD Pipelines 121 121
Frontend Component Design 126 126
Data Analysis 129 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 129
ETL Scripting 127 127
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 130 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 130
Long-Document Summarization 135 135
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 123 123

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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