Qwen3.6 27B is a dense model: all 27 billion parameters work on every token. It's the dense sibling of Qwen3.6 35B A3B, with the same focus on agentic coding and the option to keep earlier reasoning. It reads text, images and video.
A 4-bit MLX build is about 16 GB; on mlx.app's estimate it needs a Mac with 24 GB of memory. Being dense, it writes more slowly than the 35B A3B mixture-of-experts model.
Open weights under Apache 2.0. Run locally, nothing leaves your Mac.
How to Get It
Official downloads only. MLX never re-hosts an app, and never runs a command for you.
MLX Score
Ranked against the open models listings, from real public data only. How the score works.
Information
- Developer
- Qwen (Alibaba)
- Category
- Open models
- Price
- Free (Open weights, free to download.)
- Your data
- Runs on your Mac
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Mac
- macOS 14.0 or later
- iPhone and iPad
- —
- Needs
- 24 GB memory
- Links
- Website · Hugging Face
- Facts checked
- 2026-11-01
Sources
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Llama 3.3 70B InstructModelsQwen3.6 27B is a product of Qwen (Alibaba); MLX isn’t affiliated with it. Something wrong? Write to support@mlx.app.