Qwen3.6-27B review, price and benchmarks (2026)

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Statuspublic

AA Intelligence Index37 (July 16, 2026 snapshot)

Releasedn/a

Context windown/a

Modalitiesn/a

API price $/1M (in / out)n/a

Speedn/a

AccessOpen weights (Apache 2.0) · runs on a good desktop

In one line

Possibly the best quality-per-GB you can download today - near mid-frontier scores from a 27B you can run yourself.

Coding66

Reasoning62

Writing58

Agents & tools58

Category scores (0-100) are WhichAI blended ratings: public category leaderboards plus editorial judgment. Guidance, not official measurements.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2026 rebased scale (top models ≈ 55–60). Snapshot: July 24, 2026 (BenchLM mirror), retrieved July 26, 2026. Context, price and release data come from vendor pages and public pricing mirrors (retrieved July 19, 2026). Missing values are not published or not yet verified - shown as -. Sources are linked inside the app (Model guide and About > Methodology).