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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score32.818.3
Input Price$0.32/M$0.10/M
Output Price$2.70/M$0.15/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output262,14032,768
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index35.422.5

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BQwen: Qwen3.5-9B
SQL Generation 135 133
Code Review 133 130
Code Completion 129 129
Code Refactoring 133 131
Bug Fixing 137 134
Unit Test Generation 125 123
Code Documentation 129 128
Regex Writing 122 122
CI/CD Pipelines 121 119
Frontend Component Design 126 124
Data Analysis 129 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 129
ETL Scripting 127 125
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 130 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 129
Long-Document Summarization 135 133
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 123 121

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

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