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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 2026-06-20.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.640.0
Input Price$0.29/M$0.10/M
Output Price$3.17/M$0.15/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output262,140262,144
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index61.141.2
ai_index_agentic44.6-
ai_index_coding88.647.3

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BQwen: Qwen3.5-9B
SQL Generation 159 144
Code Review 152 139
Code Completion 129 130
Code Refactoring 148 138
Bug Fixing 162 144
Unit Test Generation 144 132
Code Documentation 134 131
Regex Writing 131 126
CI/CD Pipelines 135 126
Frontend Component Design 140 131
Data Analysis 158 138
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 145 137
ETL Scripting 142 132
JSON Extraction 145 139
Bulk Data Labeling 133 132
OCR / Document Parsing 141 135
Table Extraction from PDFs 141 135
Long-Document Summarization 145 138
Short-Form Summarization 129 127
Blog Post Writing 132 126

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

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