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%.
- From
- qwen3.5-27b
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | qwen3.5-27b | qwen3.6-27b | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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| Limit | qwen3.5-27b | qwen3.6-27b | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262,144 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 262,144 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
| Max output tokens | 65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
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.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3.6-27b | Groq | qwen/qwen3.6-27b | Sep 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
- Change the model string from
qwen3.5-27btoqwen3.6-27b. - 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.