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Qwen3-Coder-Flash

Alibaba · Qwen Coder line · coding · open weights

Released July 31, 2025Replaced by Qwen3-Coder-Next

Qwen3-Coder-Flash was released by Alibaba on July 31, 2025, as an open-weights coding model in the Qwen Coder line.

  • Release 4 of 7 in the Qwen Coder line.
  • Came 9 days after Qwen 3-Coder, released Jul 22, 2025.
  • Replaced by Qwen3-Coder-Next on February 3, 2026, 187 days later.
  • These days the line ships a new model about every 78 days.

No detailed card for this model: we only add numbers published by the maker or by independent benchmarks. Sources: Alibaba Cloud

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Where the Qwen Coder line stands

Qwen3.6-27B 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.

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Qwen3.6-27B

Alibaba · Qwen Coder line · coding · open weights
Past its usual gap165 days since the last release — usual gap is 78

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
165
days
Usual gap
78
days
Recent gaps
Qwen3.6-27B · Apr 2026
78
Qwen3-Coder-Next · Feb 2026
187
Qwen3-Coder-Flash · Jul 2025
9
Qwen 3-Coder · Jul 2025
252

Every Qwen Coder release

Newest first. See the full line with every card →

  1. Apr 22, 2026Qwen3.6-27B
  2. Apr 16, 2026Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B
  3. Feb 3, 2026Qwen3-Coder-Next
  4. Jul 31, 2025Qwen3-Coder-Flash · this page
  5. Jul 22, 2025Qwen 3-Coder
  6. Nov 12, 2024Qwen 2.5-Coder 32B
  7. Sep 19, 2024Qwen 2.5-Coder