Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 64.8 | 65.8 |
| Input Price | $0.32/M | $0.32/M |
| Output Price | $1.28/M | $3.20/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 81,920 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 64.3 | 61.1 |
| ai_index_agentic | 34.3 | 44.6 |
| ai_index_coding | 92.2 | 88.6 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.7 Plus costs $0.64 and Qwen3.6 27B costs $1.12, so Qwen3.7 Plus is about 1.8 times cheaper for the same work.
Qwen3.7 Plus reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Qwen3.6 27B.
Only Qwen3.6 27B offers video input.
On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.6 27B leads 65.8 to 64.8.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.7 Plus scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Qwen3.6 27B on 1 (Data Analysis).
Qwen3.7 Plus was released in June 2026 and Qwen3.6 27B in April 2026.
Pick Qwen3.7 Plus if you need lower cost, long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Qwen3.6 27B if you need video input or benchmark performance.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 162 | 159 |
| Code Review | 157 | 152 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 157 | 148 |
| Bug Fixing | 166 | 162 |
| Unit Test Generation | 147 | 144 |
| Code Documentation | 140 | 134 |
| Regex Writing | 131 | 131 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 138 | 135 |
| Data Analysis | 156 | 158 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 151 | 145 |
| ETL Scripting | 147 | 142 |
| JSON Extraction | 146 | 145 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 134 | 133 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 144 | 141 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 144 | 141 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 153 | 145 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 129 | 129 |
| Blog Post Writing | 135 | 132 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →