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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen3.6 27B is a dense 27-billion-parameter language model from the Qwen Team at Alibaba, released in April 2026. $0.30 per million input tokens, $2 per million output tokens. 262,144 token context window, maximum output of 65,536 tokens. Higher uptime with 7 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
235,929 tokens
Architecture
text+image+video->text
Tokenizer
Qwen3
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.3
/M tokens
Output
$2
/M tokens
Cache read
$0.03
/M tokens
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Moderated
No
Default parameters
Yes
API

Quick start

Call this exact model ID through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen/qwen3.6-27b","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
textimagevideo
Output
text
Reasoning

Yes

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

7 providers

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

Chutes

fp8
Context
262K
Maximum output
66K
Input
$0.300
Output
$2.00
Cache read
$0.030
Cache write
Not provided

SiliconFlow

fp8
Context
262K
Maximum output
236K
Input
$0.300
Output
$3.20
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Phala

unknown
Context
262K
Maximum output
262K
Input
$0.320
Output
$2.70
Cache read
$0.150
Cache write
Not provided

DeepInfra

fp8
Context
262K
Maximum output
82K
Input
$0.320
Output
$3.20
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Venice

fp8
Context
256K
Maximum output
66K
Input
$0.325
Output
$3.25
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Alibaba

unknown
Context
262K
Maximum output
66K
Input
$0.450
Output
$2.70
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

CoreWeave

fp8
Context
262K
Maximum output
236K
Input
$0.600
Output
$3.60
Cache read
$0.120
Cache write
Not provided
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