# Alibaba — Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2026-04-22T02:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: Qwen
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Qwen3.6-27B
- License: open weights
- Context window: 200K context window
- Source: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4605-qwen3-6-27b-flagship-level-coding-in-a-27b-dense-model

Alibaba open-sources Qwen3.6-27B, a dense 27-billion-parameter multimodal model that supports both thinking and non-thinking modes and delivers flagship-level agentic coding performance, surpassing the previous-generation open-source flagship Qwen3.5-397B-A17B across all major coding benchmarks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b:

> we are excited to open-source Qwen3.6-27B — a dense 27-billion-parameter multimodal model at the scale the community has been asking for most. Still supporting both multimodal thinking and non-thinking modes, Qwen3.6-27B delivers flagship-level agentic coding performance, surpassing the previous-generation open-source flagship Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (397B total / 17B active MoE) across all major coding benchmarks.

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