Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight family, with a coder model in nearly every size.
Qwen is Alibaba's model family and the largest open-weight line there is — dozens of sizes from a few billion parameters up to the Max models, most of them published so you can run them yourself. For vibe coders the draw is the Qwen Coder models: strong at code for the price, cheap to call through a provider, and small enough at the low end to run on your own machine. The flagship Max models take text, images and video and go up to a million tokens of context.
At a glance — Qwen3.6 27B
- Cost
- $0.32 in · $3.20 out per 1M tokensBudget
- Memory
- 262K tokens — about 400 pages
- Reads
- Text · Images · Video
- Can do
- Use tools (agents)
- Structured output
- Thinking mode
- Good at
- Coding: better than 59% · Agentic work: better than 51% · Overall: better than 39%
- Reliability
- 99.85% uptime, last 24h
- Released
- Apr 27, 2026
Advanced details
- API model ID
qwen/qwen3.6-27b- Max output
- 82K tokens
- Max input
- 258K tokens
- Tokenizer
- Qwen3
- Coding index
- 53.7
- Agentic work index
- 18.5
- Overall index
- 21.4
Providers
The same model, hosted by different companies. OpenRouter picks one per request and falls back to the next if it fails.
| Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cached /1M | Max output | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chutes · fp8 | $0.30 | $2.00 | $0.03 | 66K | 96.36% |
| SiliconFlow · fp8 | $0.30 | $3.20 | — | 236K | 92.14% |
| Phala | $0.32 | $2.70 | $0.15 | 262K | 98.76% |
| DeepInfra · fp8 | $0.32 | $3.20 | — | 82K | 98.50% |
| Venice · fp8 | $0.325 | $3.25 | — | 66K | 95.26% |
| Alibaba | $0.45 | $2.70 | — | 66K | 99.85% |
Supported parameters
- frequency_penalty
- include_reasoning
- logit_bias
- logprobs
- max_tokens
- min_p
- presence_penalty
- reasoning
- repetition_penalty
- response_format
- seed
- stop
- structured_outputs
- temperature
- tool_choice
- tools
- top_k
- top_logprobs
- top_p
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Key info
- Pricing
- Open source
- Category
- Models
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Made by
- Alibaba
- Weights
- Open, most sizes
- Good for
- Cheap coding models, and running one yourself