Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5 27B or Qwen3-Max?

Qwen3.5 27B lists at $0.3 input and $2.4 output per 1M tokens; Qwen3-Max at $1.2 and $6. Qwen3.5 27B is 2.9x cheaper per token at list price.

Which has the larger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens of context.

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Qwen3.5 27B vs Qwen3-Max: benchmarks, price and context | Respan

Qwen3.5 27B vs Qwen3-Max

Qwen3.5 27B scores 18.3 on the Respan Index (#103), ahead of Qwen3-Max at 18.0 (#106). Qwen3.5 27B leads on 3 of the 4 benchmarks both report. Qwen3.5 27B is 2.9x cheaper per token at list price.

Qwen3.5 27BQwen

Respan Index: 18.3 (#103)
Input / output per 1M: $0.3 / $2.4
Blended price per 1M: $0.825
Context window: 262K
Max output: -
Input: text, vision
Released: -

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Respan Index by category

Coding6.0 Qwen3.5 27B5.5 Qwen3-Max
Agents12.7 Qwen3.5 27B6.8 Qwen3-Max
Reasoning16.1 Qwen3.5 27B

Benchmarks both report

Benchmark	Qwen3.5 27B	Qwen3-Max
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)	201.98	71.57
LMArena Elo	1408	1423
GPQA Diamond	85.5%	72.6%
SWE-bench Verified	75%	69.6%

Higher is better. Each score links to where it was published.

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Qwen3.5 27B vs Qwen3-Max

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