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

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score32.8-
Input Price$0.32/M$0.07/M
Output Price$2.70/M$0.26/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output262,14065,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index35.4-

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BQwen: Qwen3.5-Flash
SQL Generation 135 134
Code Review 133 132
Code Completion 129 131
Code Refactoring 133 136
Bug Fixing 137 136
Unit Test Generation 125 124
Code Documentation 129 131
Regex Writing 122 119
CI/CD Pipelines 121 120
Frontend Component Design 126 122
Data Analysis 129 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 134
ETL Scripting 127 128
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 130 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 131
Long-Document Summarization 135 138
Short-Form Summarization 125 123
Blog Post Writing 123 122

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

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