Qwen3.6-27B

Name: Qwen3.6-27B
Author: Alibaba

Multimodal

Alibaba

Qwen3.6-27B is a 27.8B-parameter open-weight multimodal model from the Qwen team, released in April 2026. It delivers strong visual counting and reasoning, topping CountBench and VLMsAreBlind, and is Apache 2.0 licensed. It is served via Novita.

Key Specifications

Parameters

27.8B

Context

262.1K

Release Date

April 21, 2026

Average Score

96.7%

API Documentation Research Paper Results Blog

Timeline

Key dates in the model's history

Announcement

April 21, 2026

Last Update

August 27, 2026

Technical Specifications

Parameters

27.8B

Training Tokens

Knowledge Cutoff

Family

Capabilities

MultimodalZeroEval

Pricing & Availability

Input (per 1M tokens)

$0.60

Output (per 1M tokens)

$3.60

Max Input Tokens

262.1K

Max Output Tokens

65.5K

Supported Features

Function CallingStructured OutputCode ExecutionWeb SearchBatch InferenceFine-tuning

Benchmark Results

Model performance metrics across various tests and benchmarks

Other Tests

Specialized benchmarks

CountBench

Self-reported by the model provider • Self-reported

98.0%

VLMsAreBlind

Self-reported by the model provider • Self-reported

97.0%

Self-reported by the model provider • Self-reported

95.0%

License & Metadata

License

apache-2.0

Announcement Date

April 21, 2026

Last Updated

August 27, 2026

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