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Qwen (Alibaba)

Qwen3.6 27B

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Qwen (Alibaba)

Qwen3.6 Flash

Alibaba's quick, efficient Qwen 3.6 model that reads text, pictures and video, offered to developers.

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The basics

Released

Apr 22

Apr 27

What it does

Knowledge cutoff

The latest events it learned about

Not published

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FreeOpen weights

No: it runs on the maker's servers

Where to use it

Qwen's app: Qwen Chat ↗

Qwen's app: Qwen Chat ↗Also for developers, through an API

Price and limits, for developers

Input

Per million tokens

$0.60

$0.25Cheaper

Output

Per million tokens

$3.60

$1.50Cheaper

Cached input

Per million tokens

Not listed

$0.025

Context window

How much it takes in at once

262K tokens about 200,000 words

1M tokens about 750,000 wordsBigger

Longest answer

66K tokens about 49,000 words

How they score

Combined test score

Epoch Capabilities Index · Epoch AI

147#85 of 237Higher

144#102 of 237

Qwen3.6 27B scores 3 points higher.

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