Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B is a model from Qwen that accepts text, image, and video input. It offers a 262,144-token context window and allows up to 65,536 completion tokens per response, which leaves room for long documents, extended transcripts, or lengthy generated output. It supports tool calling and a reasoning mode. Structured output support is not listed in the available data, so confirm it before relying on schema-constrained responses. Pricing is $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. Because output costs eight times as much as input, workloads that feed in large contexts but return short answers will cost less than generation-heavy tasks. That makes it a reasonable shortlist candidate for multimodal analysis, tool-using agent pipelines, or long-context review where input volume dominates. It has no independent benchmark coverage yet, so its quality is unproven; teams should run their own evaluations against current alternatives before committing.
- Model ID
- qwen/qwen3.6-27b
- Vendor
- qwen
- Released
- April 2026
- Tokenizer
- Qwen3
- Input Modalities
- text, image, video
- Output Modalities
- text
- Max Output
- 65,536 tokens
- Tool Calling
- ✓ supported
- Structured Output
- ✓ supported
- Reasoning Mode
- ✓ supported
- Vision
- ✓ accepts images
- Audio
- no
- Moderated
- no
What it costs in practice
Computed from the current $0.25/M input and $2.00/M output rates. Run your own numbers →
| Job | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Summarize a 50-page report | 30k in / 1.5k out | $0.01 |
| Classify 1,000 customer emails | 500k in / 50k out | $0.23 |
| A month of a busy support chatbot | 5M in / 2M out | $5.25 |
Price & spec history
Tracked daily by PicksByModel since 2026-07-17.
| Date | Input /M | Output /M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | $0.25 | $2.00 | 262,144 |
| 2026-10-10 | $0.32 | $3.20 | 262,144 |
| 2026-10-09 | $0.45 | $2.70 | 262,144 |
| 2026-10-07 | $0.30 | $2.00 | 262,144 |
| 2026-10-06 | $0.32 | $3.25 | 262,144 |
| 2026-10-05 | $0.32 | $2.70 | 262,144 |
| 2026-09-26 | $0.32 | $3.20 | 262,144 |
| 2026-09-23 | $0.32 | $2.70 | 262,144 |
| 2026-09-05 | $0.30 | $2.00 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-29 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-28 | $0.32 | $3.20 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-27 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-24 | $0.32 | $3.20 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-20 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-19 | $0.30 | $2.00 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-18 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-17 | $0.29 | $2.40 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-06 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 262,144 |
| 2026-08-04 | $0.29 | $2.40 | 262,144 |
| 2026-07-26 | $0.30 | $2.00 | 262,144 |
| 2026-07-25 | $0.29 | $2.40 | 262,144 |
| 2026-07-24 | $0.29 | $2.40 | 262,144 |
| 2026-07-23 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 262,144 |
| 2026-07-17 | $0.45 | $2.70 | 262,144 |
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Quick answers
- How much does Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B cost?
- $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens.
- What is Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B's context window?
- 262,144 tokens, roughly 393 pages of text in a single request.
- Does Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B support tool calling?
- It supports tool calling, structured output, a reasoning mode.
- Can Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B process images?
- Yes, it accepts image input.