Qwen3.6-27B

Qwen · released 2026-04-01 · Apache-2.0 license

Qwen3.6-27B is Alibaba's April 2026 open-weight dense multimodal model that delivers flagship-level coding (77.2% SWE-bench Verified) despite its small size. Hardest-reasoning breadth lags the largest models.

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters
Architecture
Context window
Knowledge cutoff
Modalitiestext, vision
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond87.8%
SWE-bench Verified77.2%
AIME94.1%
MMLU-Pro86.2%
BFCL v3 (tool use)
Composite score7.37
Community ratingNo reviews yet

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: Flagship-level coding from a 27B dense model (77.2 SWE-bench Verified); Strong GPQA (87.8) and LiveCodeBench (83.9) for its size; Multimodal, 262K native context, Apache-2.0

Weaknesses: HLE (24.0) below the largest frontier reasoners; Vendor scores use an internal agent scaffold