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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B vs Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
Vendorqwenz-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score32.836.7
Input Price$0.32/M$1.20/M
Output Price$2.70/M$4.00/M
Context Window262,144202,752
Max Output262,140131,072
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index35.438.8

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BZ.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
SQL Generation 135 134
Code Review 133 131
Code Completion 129 115
Code Refactoring 133 130
Bug Fixing 137 135
Unit Test Generation 125 124
Code Documentation 129 126
Regex Writing 122 122
CI/CD Pipelines 121 120
Frontend Component Design 126 126
Data Analysis 129 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 127
ETL Scripting 127 125
JSON Extraction 131 123
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
OCR / Document Parsing 130 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 129
Long-Document Summarization 135 131
Short-Form Summarization 125 116
Blog Post Writing 123 122

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

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