# Qwen3.6-27B vs ZAYA1-8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.6-27B and ZAYA1-8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-27b-vs-zaya1-8b
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick ZAYA1-8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-27B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- ZAYA1-8B leads overall 56 to 47.73.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 81 for Qwen3.6-27B and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 87.8% and 71%.
- Qwen3.6-27B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6-27B | ZAYA1-8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Overall Score | 47.73 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 30.8 (Supported · #144/154)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 46.1 (Estimated · #82/154)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 72.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | 1487 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | 70.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 54.84% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 39.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 41.7 (Supported · #109/154)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 53.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | 83.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 36.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 65.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 51.9 (#35/48)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 82.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 84.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MStar | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 56.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CountBench | 97.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 92.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 62.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 94.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 74.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 46.7 (Estimated · #104/184)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 43.6 (Estimated · #120/184)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 86.2% | 74.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMLU-Redux | 93.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 66% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 91.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 87.8% | 71% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| HLE | 24% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 81 (#52/124)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 23.5 (#121/124)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 72.1 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 93.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 90.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.3% | 71.6% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMAnswerBench | 80.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.1% | 89.1% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.6-27B or ZAYA1-8B?

ZAYA1-8B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.6-27B and ZAYA1-8B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 81 for Qwen3.6-27B and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-27B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does ZAYA1-8B cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-8B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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