Qwen 3.5 27B

Qwen 3.5 27B is Alibaba’s dense 27-billion-parameter variant of the Qwen3.5 family (February 2026), an open Apache-2.0 release with native multimodality for text, image, and video. The hybrid architecture of Gated-DeltaNet and Gated-Attention blocks delivers 262,144 tokens of context (extensible to approximately one million via YaRN), up to 65,536 tokens of output, and strong coding performance (SWE-bench Verified 72.4) — the only dense variant in the Qwen3.5 family.

Alibaba Version 3.5 Commercial use permitted Dense 27 B (27 B active) 262 K Context 04/2026 locally tested

  • Open Weights
  • Workstation
  • vLLM
  • Text
  • Vision
  • Video
  • Instruction-Tuned
  • Long Context
  • Unusable

Sovereign Risk: MEDIUM The model was developed by Alibaba Cloud in China. Although the weights are freely available under the Apache 2.0 license, the developer is subject to Chinese jurisdiction. This may raise considerations regarding data privacy and security for users in other legal jurisdictions. The risk is rated ‘medium’, as the open weights enable local use without transmitting data to the manufacturer.

Key metrics

Score · Latency · Cost · Quality

Total Score Silver
71.01
Routine
44.19
Reasoning
26.82

Rank #59

LLM Judge Avg
3.56
100 Coverage
Avg Task Duration
190.65
Unusable
Token Rate
17.78
Output Rate
P95 Latency
331.9
Top 5 %
Total Tokens
182700
Output Volume
Cost per 1K
$0
USD / 1K Requests
Benchmark Cost
$0
Total · 182700 tok

Benchmark modules

10 modules · weighted · vs. model median & top performer

Qwen 3.5 27B Best model Ø All models
Code Quality 64.28
CLI Benchmark 83.67
Logical Reasoning 65.13
UX Writing 69.18
Documentation 70.96
Content Transform. 80.8
Cultural Intelligence 74.64
Synthesis Quality 52.5
Tool Execution 83.33
ToolUse Score 65.75
Benchmark Cost $0

Token efficiency & latency

Consumption per module vs. model median

Token consumption per module

Performance profile