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Qwen3.6-27B
Qwen3.6-27B is an Alibaba language model released Apr 22, 2026; Alibaba's newest language model in our dataset is Qwen3.8-27B. Open weights (Apache-2.0). Alibaba's 27B dense multimodal open-weights model under Apache 2.0, released Apr 22, 2026. It is often listed as new in late October because gateways added it then; Qwen3.8-27B (Aug 14, 2026) is the newer 27B. Verified against vendor sources on Oct 26, 2026.
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- ReleasedApr 22, 2026
- Context window262K262,144 tokens
- LicenceOpen weightsApache-2.0
Modalities not verified
Key facts
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Alibaba | n/a |
| Released | Apr 22, 2026 The Qwen repository news list says Qwen3.6-27B became available on Hugging Face Hub and ModelScope on 2026-04-22. | source |
| Status | generally available | n/a |
| API id | Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B | source |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens (262K) Native; extensible to 1,010,000 tokens per the model card. | source |
| Parameters | 27B total, dense | source |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (open weights) | source |
Where Qwen3.6-27B sits in our data
- Released Apr 22, 2026 (week 17 of 2026), in April 2026. Other models in our data released that month: Mistral Medium 3.5, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Pro, GPT-Image-2, Claude Opus 4.7, GLM-5.1.
- Of the 60 models in our data with a published context window, Qwen3.6-27B has the number 45 largest (262K tokens). Our data is not every model on the market.
- All releases by date: AI model releases by month · new AI models this week. Choosing for code: best LLM for coding.
How Qwen3.6-27B differs from Qwen3.8-27B
Read from the recorded facts of the two models, not from a head-to-head test. We have not run either.
- Both list a 262K-token context window.
- Qwen3.6-27B came out 114 days before Qwen3.8-27B.
- Facts for the other model: Qwen3.8-27B.
What we tested
Nothing yet. We have not run Qwen3.6-27B ourselves, so every fact on this page is Reported from the sources below. When we do test it, the scope will be stated here and in our test logs. See methodology.
Not verified, left out
We could not confirm these on a vendor page, so we do not state them.
- Hosted API pricing was not verified: Alibaba's launch post says Model Studio API access was coming soon.
- Aggregators such as LLM Gateway list it as added on Oct 21, 2026; that is the date a gateway added it, not Alibaba's release date.
Sources
More from Alibaba
- Qwen3.8-27B (Aug 14, 2026)
- Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Aug 12, 2026)