Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
alibaba/qwen3.6-27bQwen3.6 27B is an open-weight dense 27-billion-parameter vision-language model in Alibaba's Qwen3.6 family, released in April 2026 with thinking and non-thinking modes. Qwen positions it for agentic coding, including front-end workflows and repository-level reasoning, plus STEM reasoning, spatial understanding, object localization, document OCR and video understanding. Its dense design is simple to deploy, and it can retain reasoning context across turns for iterative development.
- Input price
- $0.60USD / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $3.60USD / 1M tokens
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 131.1K
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Specifications
Pricing
- Input
- $0.60 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $3.60 / 1M tokens
Context & modalities
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Input
- Text, image
- Output
- Text
Capabilities
- Chat
- Supported
- Vision
- Supported
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Structured output
- Supported
- Function calling
- Supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Model ID
- alibaba/qwen3.6-27b
- Execution
- sync
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Chat Completions API
- Endpoint
- /v1/chat/completions
Independent evaluations
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations, compared with other models on SandBase.
Metrics sourced from Artificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.3
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OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "alibaba/qwen3.6-27b",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello"
}
],
"max_tokens": 2048
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
Compare models
| Model | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3.6 27BThis model Alibaba | 256K | $0.60 | $3.60 | Apr 27, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $4.00 | $12.00 | Sep 23, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | Sep 18, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Sep 3, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $0.50 | $3.00 | Aug 14, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Aug 12, 2026 |
Questions
FAQ
How do I call Alibaba Qwen3.6 27B through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/qwen3.6-27b" to Chat Completions API (/v1/chat/completions) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
How much does Alibaba Qwen3.6 27B cost?
$0.60 per 1M input tokens and $3.60 per 1M output tokens, billed per request from your SandBase balance. Discounts, when available, are shown in the pricing on this page.
What is the context window of Alibaba Qwen3.6 27B?
262.1K tokens of context, with up to 131.1K output tokens per response.
How does Alibaba Qwen3.6 27B score on benchmarks?
Alibaba Qwen3.6 27B scores 21.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v4.3), ranking #61 of 84 models on SandBase; Coding Index 53.7, Agentic Index 18.5. Source: Artificial Analysis, measured as Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning).
Which features does Alibaba Qwen3.6 27B support?
Alibaba Qwen3.6 27B supports vision (image input), reasoning, function calling, structured output. See Specifications above for the full list.
Do I need a separate Alibaba account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Alibaba Qwen3.6 27B and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.