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Qwen3.6-27B

Alibaba · Qwen Medium line · lightweight · open weights

Released April 22, 2026Replaced by Qwen3.8-27B

Qwen3.6-27B was released by Alibaba on April 22, 2026, as an open-weights lightweight model in the Qwen Medium line.

What changed

An open 27B dense model in Alibaba's Qwen3.6 family, released six days after Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, under Apache 2.0 with a 262K native context extensible to 1M.

Sources: Hugging Face · Qwen (GitHub)

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Qwen3.8-27B is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

Qwen Medium

Alibaba · lightweight line · open weights

Latest: Qwen3.8-27B · Aug 14, 2026

Mid-cycle71 days since the last release · usual gap 86 days

Alibaba's open 27B model scores 84.3% on OSWorld-Verified, up from 63.9% for Qwen3.6-27B, and stays free to download under Apache 2.0.

What changed in Qwen3.8-27B →
Days since last release
71
days
Usual gap
86
days
Recent gaps
Qwen3.8-27B · Aug 2026
114
Qwen3.6-27B · Apr 2026
57
Qwen 3.5 Medium · Feb 2026
166
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B · Sep 2025
43

Every Qwen Medium release

Newest first. See the full line with every card →

  1. Aug 14, 2026Qwen3.8-27B
  2. Apr 22, 2026Qwen3.6-27B · this page
  3. Apr 16, 2026Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B
  4. Feb 24, 2026Qwen 3.5 Medium
  5. Sep 11, 2025Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B
  6. Jul 30, 2025Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507