Qwen3.6 27B | Epoch AI

ECI#79

146

Alibaba

Apr. 22, 2026

Open weights

Qwen3.6 27B is an open-weights model from Alibaba, released April 22, 2026. It has an ECI score of 146 and ranks 79th of 253 tracked models. At the time of its release, it ranked 31st of 198 tracked models.

Qwen3.6 27B vs select alternatives

Domain	Benchmark	Qwen3.6 27B Alibaba Apr. 22, 2026 Open weights	Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) Alibaba Feb. 16, 2026 Closed weights	Qwen3.5 397B-A17B Alibaba Feb. 13, 2026 Open weights	DeepSeek-V4-Flash DeepSeek Apr. 24, 2026 Open weights
	ECI scoreBest score 169	146	146	147	146
	Ranking	#79	#80	#74	#81
Conceptual reasoning	LMCABest score 68.3	34.5	36.4	37.9	35.9
	DTBenchBest score 99%	78%	81%	87%	86%
Games	Mystery Game PuzzlesBest score 84%	7%	17%	18%	n/a
Mathematics	FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2)Best score 94%	35%	n/a	31%	n/a
	OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Best score 100%	91%	87%	89%	n/a
Science	CritPt v1Best score 32%	1%	n/a	n/a	7%
	SciCodeBest score 67%	37%	n/a	n/a	45%
	GPQA DiamondBest score 96%	86%	85%	86%	n/a

Model metadata

General
Organization	Alibaba
Release date	Apr. 22, 2026
Model accessibility	Open weights
Country	China
Knowledge cutoff	Unknown
Provider notes	Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

Pricing
Input price	$0.45 / 1M tokens
Output price	$2.70 / 1M tokens

Training
Parameters	2.8e10
Training compute	Unknown
Training hardware	Unknown
Training time	Unknown
Training dataset size	Unknown