Alibaba

Qwen3.5-27B

Qwen3.5-27B is an open-weight model from Alibaba, released Feb 25, 2026. It ranks #142 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1409. It costs $0.27 per million input tokens and $2.16 per million output tokens, with a 256K-token context window.

LMArena text1409+1 in 30 days
Rank#142/351
95% interval1405–1413
Votes28.7K
Developer
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Feb 25, 2026
Context window
256K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.27 / $2.16
Weights
Open · Apache 2.0
Inputs
Text, Images, Video
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
1.7M
Hugging Face likes
1.1K
Qwen3.5-27B, LMArena text rating over time
13901400141014201430Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Oct 26
LatestQwen3.5-27B 1409

The rating LMArena published at each update since Feb 26, 2026. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1409142 / 35128.7K
CodingLMArena1427142 / 3467.9K
MathLMArena1429105 / 3391.7K
Creative writingLMArena1363155 / 3494.3K
Instruction followingLMArena1393141 / 3519.2K
Hard promptsLMArena1414143 / 35118.1K
Multi-turnLMArena1410138 / 3494.9K
Long queriesLMArena1413123 / 33011K
ExpertLMArena1428123 / 3052.7K
Legal and governmentIndustries1405152 / 3252.2K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1425124 / 3252K
Business and financeIndustries1399142 / 3445.6K
ChineseLanguages147879 / 3282.1K
SpanishLanguages1407135 / 249939
GermanLanguages1393129 / 261451
FrenchLanguages1410147 / 252849
JapaneseLanguages1346131 / 236226
WebDevLMArena1359116 / 1247.8K
VisionLMArena124172 / 14630.3K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

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Alibaba Qwen

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team releases a broad family of open-weight models, from small to frontier scale. Founded 2023 (Qwen), based in Hangzhou. qwenlm.github.io

Questions

Who makes Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B is made by Alibaba Qwen, founded 2023 (Qwen) and based in Hangzhou.

How much does Qwen3.5-27B cost?

$0.27 per million input tokens and $2.16 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is Qwen3.5-27B’s context window?

256K tokens (262,144).

How does Qwen3.5-27B rank?

#142 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1409 (95% interval 1405–1413) from 28,661 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Qwen3.5-27B open source?

Qwen3.5-27B has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B).

Sources

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