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Qwen3.6 27B benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Qwen3.6 27B, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 12, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 12, 2026

#87of 122

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 37 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Qwen3.6 27B

Artificial Analysis

#50of 111

Score 21.4. Best run: qwen/qwen3.6-27b.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

#34of 36

Score 64.0. Best run: Qwen3.6 27b.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

Not measured by LMArena.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$1.04

OpenRouter: $0.32 in, $3.20 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.60 in, $3.60 out Context window 262K tokens. LiveBench cost per solved task $0.202.

Nearby

The models either side of Qwen3.6 27B

  1. #84Qwen3 14B38
  2. #85Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct37
  3. #86Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite37
  4. #87Qwen3.6 27B37
  5. #88Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 250737
  6. #89GLM 4.6V36
  7. #90Qwen3 32B36

Questions about Qwen3.6 27B

How good is Qwen3.6 27B?
Qwen3.6 27B ranks #87 of 122 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 37 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Qwen3.6 27B better than Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite?
Not on the consensus: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite scores 37 to Qwen3.6 27B's 37. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Qwen3.6 27B better than Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507?
On the consensus, yes: 37 to 37.
How much does Qwen3.6 27B cost?
$0.32 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $1.04 per million.
Is Qwen3.6 27B good for coding?
It scores 53.7 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #28 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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