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Migrating from qwen3.5-27b to qwen3.6-27b

What changes when you move from qwen3.5-27b to qwen3.6-27b: input price +100%, output price +50%.

Status
Active
Shutdown
none announced
Time left
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Status
Active
Shutdown
none announced
Time left
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Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier
Typeqwen3.5-27bqwen3.6-27bChange
Input$0.30first seen October 5, 2026 · source$0.60first seen October 5, 2026 · source+100%
Output$2.40first seen October 5, 2026 · source$3.60first seen October 5, 2026 · source+50%

At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $0.90 on qwen3.5-27b, $1.50 on qwen3.6-27b (+66.7%).

Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.

Limits

Tokens
Limitqwen3.5-27bqwen3.6-27bChange
Context window262,144 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source262,144 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source0%
Max output tokens65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source0%

Features and parameters

Compare models
  • Fine-tuning: supported on qwen3.5-27b, not supported on qwen3.6-27b.qwen3.5-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source

Same on both

  • Structured outputs: supported on both.qwen3.5-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Function calling: supported on both.qwen3.5-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Prompt caching: not supported on both.qwen3.5-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Batch API: not supported on both.qwen3.5-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Image input: supported on both.qwen3.5-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Built-in web search: supported on both.qwen3.5-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · qwen3.6-27b: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source

Not published for qwen3.5-27b: PDF input, Reasoning / thinking, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.

Not published for qwen3.6-27b: PDF input, Reasoning / thinking, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.

No aliases point at either model.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates
ModelPlatformPlatform IDShutdownTime left
qwen3.6-27bGroqqwen/qwen3.6-27bSep 14, 2026Retired on September 14, 2026

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.

Checklist

  1. Change the model string from qwen3.5-27b to qwen3.6-27b.
  2. Re-check costs: qwen3.6-27b costs more than qwen3.5-27b (input +100%, output +50%).

Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: qwen3.5-27b, qwen3.6-27b.