qwen

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.

Open weights 27.8B parameters, about 15.5 GiB at Q4_K_M: fits comfortably on 4 of 19 consumer graphics cards in the PicksByCard catalog. See which cards run it →
Quality Score
100/100
price + capability + benchmarks
Input Price
$0.25
per 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-24
Output Price
$2.00
per 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-24
Context Window
262,144
tokens
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 →

JobTokensCost
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.

DateInput /MOutput /MContext
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.

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