Qwen Coder

Alibaba · coding line · open weights

6 releases since 2024Latest: Qwen3.6-27B

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Qwen3.6-27B

Alibaba · Qwen Coder line · coding · open weights

Due140 days since the last release — usual gap is 95

The first open-weight variant of the Qwen3.6 family — a coding-focused 27B dense model under Apache 2.0 with a 262K native context, extensible to 1M.

Released Apr 22, 2026 · what changed →

Days since last release

Qwen3.6-27B · Apr 22, 2026

140

days

Usual gap

days

Recent gaps

Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B · Apr 2026

Qwen3-Coder-Next · Feb 2026

112

Qwen 3-Coder · Oct 2025

337

Qwen 2.5-Coder 32B · Nov 2024

Every Qwen Coder release

Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Alibaba's own numbers.

Apr

Qwen3.6-27B Alibaba · Qwen CoderOpen weights

The first open-weight variant of the Qwen3.6 family — a coding-focused 27B dense model under Apache 2.0 with a 262K native context, extensible to 1M.

Sources: Hugging Face · Qwen (GitHub)

Apr

Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B Alibaba · Qwen CoderOpen weights

Feb

Qwen3-Coder-Next Alibaba · Qwen CoderOpen weights

An open-weight (Apache 2.0) coding-agent model with 80B total and 3B active parameters and a 256K context, built for coding agents and local development.

Sources: Hugging Face · OpenRouter

Oct

Qwen 3-Coder Alibaba · Qwen CoderOpen weights

Nov

Qwen 2.5-Coder 32B Alibaba · Qwen CoderOpen weights

Sep

Qwen 2.5-Coder Alibaba · Qwen CoderOpen weights

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