Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Alibaba
Capabilities
Strengths
- Strong long-context handling (262K tokens)
- Multimodal video+image+text input capability
- Self-hostable with open weights
- Extended thinking for complex reasoning
- Structured output and tool support
Weaknesses
- Slow inference speed (65 tok/s)
- Modest reasoning performance (0.63 fitness)
- Video understanding untested on standard benchmarks
- Very high output pricing ($3.17/M tokens)
Pricing
Input / 1M tokens
$0.28850000000000003
Output / 1M tokens
$3.17
Context window
262.144k
Transparency
Open weights
10.0 / 10
Open training data
0.0 / 10
Open methodology
7.0 / 10
Licence openness
8.5 / 10
Provider disclosure
6.5 / 10
FMTI company score
N/A
Open-weight model with public weights available. Alibaba publishes moderate technical documentation on architecture and training approaches. Training data composition not fully disclosed. Apache 2.0 licence enables commercial use and self-hosting.
Sustainability
Inference energy
N/A
Training footprint
N/A
Provider infrastructure
5.5 / 10
27B parameter model has moderate inference energy requirements compared to larger models. Alibaba cloud infrastructure sustainability commitments not extensively documented. Self-hosting option available for operators with clean energy sources.