Qwen3.5-27B

AlibabaOpenApache 2.0

Qwen3.5-27B is a vision-language model from Alibaba. It ranks 72 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1241±5 from 30,272 votes. Its best category is OCR (#75 of 123). License: Apache 2.0.

Key figures

LMArena · Overall1241±5#72 / 167 · Votes 30,272
OCR1246±5#75 / 123 · Votes 21,340
Diagrams1249±8#78 / 123 · Votes 7,927
Homework1256±10#74 / 118 · Votes 3,843
Captioning1170±81#27 / 34 · Votes 61
Entity recognition1210±41#36 / 51 · Votes 187
Creative writing1224±14#72 / 104 · Votes 2,140
Humor1227±18#60 / 93 · Votes 1,195
English1246±8#69 / 167 · Votes 11,800
Chinese1301±15#52 / 128 · Votes 1,997
Developer
Alibaba
License
Apache 2.0
First seen (our snapshots)
2026-10-26

Who it suits

  • Overall #72 of 167: upper half.
  • Strongest category: OCR (#75 of 123).
  • Open weights (Apache 2.0): you can self-host it.

Neighbours on the overall board

#ModelScoreVotesLicenseΔ vs this model
69GPT-5.4 mini (High) OpenAI124525,734Proprietary+4
70Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Alibaba124413,236Apache 2.0+3
71ChatGPT-4o Latest (20250326) OpenAI124323,400Proprietary+2
72Qwen3.5-27B Alibaba124130,272Apache 2.0
73Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview Google124027,657Proprietary-1
74GPT-6 Sol (Max) OpenAI12403,221Proprietary-1
75TInkling-Small Thinking Machines12378,074Apache 2.0-4

Alternatives · More from Alibaba

#ModelScoreVotesLicense
10Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba13139,957Proprietary
37Qwen3.7-Plus Alibaba127814,212Proprietary
44Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba12697,614Apache 2.0
54Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Alibaba126232,657Apache 2.0
67Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct Alibaba124712,724Apache 2.0

Alternatives · Top open-weight models

#ModelScoreVotesLicense
24GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai129416,254MIT
34Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI128216,368Modified MIT
38DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek12784,100MIT
39Gemma 4 31B Google127640,219Apache 2.0
44Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba12697,614Apache 2.0

How to read these scores

  • If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
  • Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
  • Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.

FAQ

Where does Qwen3.5-27B rank among vision models?

Overall rank 72 (1241); OCR rank 75 (1246); Diagrams rank 78 (1249); Homework rank 74 (1256); Captioning rank 27 (1170); Entity recognition rank 36 (1210); Creative writing rank 72 (1224); Humor rank 60 (1227); English rank 69 (1246); Chinese rank 52 (1301) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).

How good is Qwen3.5-27B at OCR?

Qwen3.5-27B ranks 75 of 123 on LMArena’s OCR board with 1246 (21,340 votes).

Is Qwen3.5-27B better with Chinese or English prompts?

Chinese board: #52 of 128 (1301); English board: #69 of 167 (1246). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.

Is Qwen3.5-27B open-weight?

LMArena lists its license as Apache 2.0, not proprietary; check the license text for commercial use.

How far is Qwen3.5-27B from #1?

#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Qwen3.5-27B has 1241, 84 points behind.

Sources

LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.

Synced here Oct 26, 2026.

Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.