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If it helps, I mean it in a really literal sense. qwen3.6 27b is currently $3.20 per million tokens on openrouter right now which is way overpriced. As good as the 27b is, kimi k2.5 $3.00 and it's just in another league in terms of capability. There's no reason to spend money on it.

And even alibaba's own qwen3.6-plus is $1.95, so it's kinda easy to come to a conclusion that alibaba (nor anyone else) is really interested in hosting that model.

And don't get me wrong, I fully agree with you, qwen3.6 27b is an amazing model. I run it on my own hardware and every day I'm constantly surprised with what it can zero shot.



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