Qwen3.6 27B vs Beam 1.0 501B A23B: API price and specs

Qwen3.6 27B is 90% cheaper than Beam 1.0 501B A23B on input price.

Qwen3.6 27B is 72% cheaper than Beam 1.0 501B A23B on output price.

Qwen3.6 27B is 82% cheaper than Beam 1.0 501B A23B on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Beam 1.0 501B A23B has a 300% larger context than Qwen3.6 27B.

Field	Qwen3.6 27B	Beam 1.0 501B A23B
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.025	$0.25 +900%
Median input, per 1M	$0.40 +14.7%	$0.35
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.28	$1.00 +257.1%
Median output, per 1M	$3.19 +184.8%	$1.12
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.081	$0.45 +455.6%
Context	262K +75%	1M
Max output	262K	131K +50%
Providers	27	7 +74.1%
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	GLOBAL
Accepts	application/pdf, audio, file, image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, pdf, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/webm	text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	inferx	kilo

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aiml, edenai, huggingface, io-net, kilo, openrouter, trustedrouter

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.6 27B or Beam 1.0 501B A23B?

Qwen3.6 27B is 90% cheaper than Beam 1.0 501B A23B on input price. Qwen3.6 27B is 72% cheaper than Beam 1.0 501B A23B on output price. Qwen3.6 27B is 82% cheaper than Beam 1.0 501B A23B on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3.6 27B or Beam 1.0 501B A23B?

Qwen3.6 27B: 262K tokens; Beam 1.0 501B A23B: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3.6 27B and Beam 1.0 501B A23B?

aiml, edenai, huggingface, io-net, kilo, openrouter, trustedrouter