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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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Qwen (Alibaba)

Qwen3.6 27B

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The basics

Released

Apr 27

Apr 22

What it does

Knowledge cutoff

The latest events it learned about

Not published

Download

No: it runs on the maker's servers

FreeOpen weights

Where to use it

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

Qwen's app: Qwen Chat ↗

Price and limits, for developers

Input

Per million tokens

$0.25Cheaper

$0.60

Output

Per million tokens

$1.50Cheaper

$3.60

Cached input

Per million tokens

$0.025

Not listed

Context window

How much it takes in at once

1M tokens about 750,000 wordsBigger

262K tokens about 200,000 words

Longest answer

66K tokens about 49,000 words

How they score

Combined test score

Epoch Capabilities Index · Epoch AI

144#102 of 237

147#85 of 237Higher

Qwen3.6 27B scores 3 points higher.

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