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

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score43.235.5
Input Price$0.33/M$0.20/M
Output Price$1.95/M$1.56/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output65,53665,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index44.637.8

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 139 135
Code Review 140 133
Code Completion 132 129
Code Refactoring 143 133
Bug Fixing 144 137
Unit Test Generation 129 125
Code Documentation 135 129
Regex Writing 124 123
CI/CD Pipelines 125 121
Frontend Component Design 127 126
Data Analysis 130 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 134 127
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 130
Long-Document Summarization 144 135
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 127 123

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

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