Qwen3.6 27B vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Release Comparison

Name: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Creator: Artificial Analysis
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Comparison of the Qwen3.6 27B and Qwen3.6 35B A3B releases: 2 and 2 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 4 models.

For intelligence, Qwen3.6 27B scores highest: Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) at 22, against Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) at 19 for Qwen3.6 35B A3B.
For output speed, Qwen3.6 35B A3B is fastest: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) at 131 t/s, against Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning) at 60 t/s for Qwen3.6 27B.
For cost per task, Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheapest: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) at $0.48, against Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) at $0.62 for Qwen3.6 27B.

Releases compared

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 includes: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task, segmented by token type. Lower is better

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Capability Scores

Capability Indices

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Terminal-Bench 4.0 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better

Further details


																												Input modality	Output modality	Weights			Provider Benchmarks
Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning)	Alibaba	22	22	18	24	-	24	32	$0.62	$0.9	$0.60	$3.60	-	$1,145	32k	19k	164M	58	3.66s	102.11s	110.78s	508.69s	27.8B	262k	Apr 2026	-	Yes	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text	🤗	Apache 2.0	+2	View
Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)	Alibaba	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	$0.9	$0.60	$3.60	-	-	-	-	-	60	3.65s	3.65s	12.03s	-	27.8B	262k	Apr 2026	-	No	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text	🤗	Apache 2.0	+2	View
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)	Alibaba	19	19	14	22	-	22	30	$0.48	$0.6	$0.375	$2.25	-	$896	35k	13k	161M	127	2.07s	44.48s	48.41s	261.90s	36B 3B active at inference time	262k	Apr 2026	-	Yes	Supports: text and image	Supports: text	🤗	Apache 2.0	+4	View
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning)	Alibaba	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	$0.6	$0.375	$2.25	-	-	-	-	-	131	2.06s	2.06s	5.88s	-	36B 3B active at inference time	262k	Apr 2026	-	No	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text	🤗	Apache 2.0	+3	View

Qwen3.6 27B vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output Speed

Model Performance Representation

Capability Scores

Capability Indices

Further details