Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning)
AI model by Alibaba. Real-time pricing and benchmark data.
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Editorial Analysis
Profile. Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) is a budget-tier option from Alibaba at $3.60/M output tokens. Despite the low price, it scores competitively on GPQA Diamond (84.2%) and IFBench (67.6%) — making it a candidate for high-volume production workloads where unit cost dominates.
Latency. On latency, Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) reports 58 tok/s output speed and 1429ms time-to-first-token. Output speed is on the slower end; for real-time chat consider pairing with a streaming front-end or routing latency-sensitive requests to a faster model.
Cost model. For a workload of 1M input tokens + 100K output tokens, Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) costs $0.96 per million input-equivalent requests. Multiply by your monthly request volume to project the bill, and compare against the speed/correctness profile above to decide if the trade-off is worth it for your workload.
Editorial summary generated from public pricing and benchmark data (Artificial Analysis API). All numbers are sourced — see the Artificial Analysis methodology for benchmark definitions. Last refreshed 2026-07-25.
Compare with similar models
| Model | Input | Output | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning)Current | $0.60 | $3.60 | 58 tok/s |
| Kimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) | $0.95 | $4.00 | 29 tok/s |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | $0.95 | $4.00 | 45 tok/s |
| Nova Pro | $0.80 | $3.20 | 0 tok/s |
| Kimi K2.6 | $0.95 | $4.00 | 0 tok/s |
| GLM-5 (Non-reasoning) | $1.00 | $3.20 | 0 tok/s |