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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 2026-06-20.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.655.6
Input Price$0.29/M$0.20/M
Output Price$3.17/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_index61.155.7
ai_index_agentic44.6-
ai_index_coding88.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BQwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 159 137
Code Review 152 137
Code Completion 129 130
Code Refactoring 148 136
Bug Fixing 162 141
Unit Test Generation 144 127
Code Documentation 134 131
Regex Writing 131 125
CI/CD Pipelines 135 123
Frontend Component Design 140 128
Data Analysis 158 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 145 130
ETL Scripting 142 130
JSON Extraction 145 131
Bulk Data Labeling 133 129
OCR / Document Parsing 141 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 141 131
Long-Document Summarization 145 138
Short-Form Summarization 129 126
Blog Post Writing 132 125

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

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