Qwen

Qwen3.6-27B

27.8B parameters · reasoning · Base · Qwen3.6 family

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GGUF · IQ4_XS

14.38 GB

Est. speed
Swarm
2S / 0L webseed OK

Unsloth IQ4_XS quant of Qwen3.6-27B (27.781B dense) — compact low-bit option. Apache-2.0.

GGUF · Q4_K_M

15.66 GB

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GGUF · Q8_0

26.63 GB

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Unsloth Q8_0 quant of Qwen3.6-27B (27.781B dense) — high-quality option. Apache-2.0.

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Context

Advertised 256k · usable ≈ 256k (reported — model card)

How we know

Evidence grade: reported — a maintainer claim with no independent evaluation.

Model card: native 262,144, extensible ~1,010,000 via YaRN factor 4. No long-context eval table found on the card or the release README.

Reviewed on Jul 18, 2026.

Capabilities (as declared by the maintainer): reasoning tool calling

Run it

Runtime completeness (IQ4_XS torrent): llama.cpp ✅ Ollama – vision sidecar –

  • Ollama — runs the GGUF directly; no Modelfile bundled
  • vision sidecar — not a vision model

Context / KV 8,192 tokens · FP16 set above the quant table

Generic commands (no rig set). GPU-offload values assume the model fits on your GPU — set your rig for values tuned to your hardware.

Start the server
llama-server -m Qwen3.6-27B-IQ4_XS.gguf -c 8192 -ngl 999

Use llama-cli in place of llama-server for a one-shot prompt.

Save as Modelfile next to the GGUF (Modelfile)
FROM ./Qwen3.6-27B-IQ4_XS.gguf
PARAMETER num_ctx 8192
PARAMETER num_gpu 999
PARAMETER stop "<|im_end|>"
PARAMETER stop "<|endoftext|>"
PARAMETER temperature 1
PARAMETER top_p 0.95
PARAMETER top_k 20
# Chat template: Ollama uses the template embedded in the GGUF (no TEMPLATE directive needed).
Create
ollama create qwen-qwen3-6-27b -f Modelfile
Run
ollama run qwen-qwen3-6-27b

GGUF is not a first-class vLLM format.

vLLM GGUF support is experimental and single-file only; prefer safetensors/GPTQ/AWQ for production. If you must, pass the .gguf path to `vllm serve` with --load-format gguf on a recent vLLM.

transformers does not load GGUF weights.

GGUF weights run under llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio.

Load Qwen3.6-27B-IQ4_XS.gguf, set the context length to 8192 tokens. Set GPU offload to Max (all layers).

MLX runs MLX-format weights only (Apple Silicon). This quant is a GGUF build.

GGUF weights run under llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio.

Technical details

Chat template

{%- set image_count = namespace(value=0) %}
{%- set video_count = namespace(value=0) %}
{%- macro render_content(content, do_vision_count, is_system_content=false) %}
    {%- if content is string %}
        {{- content }}
    {%- elif content is iterable and content is not mapping %}
        {%- for item in content %}
            {%- if 'image' in item or 'image_url' in item or item.type == 'image' %}
                {%- if is_system_content %}
                    {{- raise_exception('System message cannot contain images.') }}
                {%- endif %}
                {%- if do_vision_count %}
                    {%- set image_count.value = image_count.value + 1 %}
                {%- endif %}
                {%- if add_vision_id %}
                    {{- 'Picture ' ~ image_count.value ~ ': ' }}
                {%- endif %}
                {{- '<|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>' }}
            {%- elif 'video' in item or item.type == 'video' %}
                {%- if is_system_content %}
                    {{- raise_exception('System message cannot contain videos.') }}
                {%- endif %}
                {%- if do_vision_count %}
                    {%- set video_count.value = video_count.value + 1 %}
                {%- endif %}
                {%- if add_vision_id %}
                    {{- 'Video ' ~ video_count.value ~ ': ' }}
                {%- endif %}
                {{- '<|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>' }}
            {%- elif 'text' in item %}
                {{- item.text }}
            {%- else %}
                {{- raise_exception('Unexpected item type in content.') }}
            {%- endif %}
        {%- endfor %}
    {%- elif content is none or content is undefined %}
        {{- '' }}
    {%- else %}
        {{- raise_exception('Unexpected content type.') }}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endmacro %}
{%- if not messages %}
    {{- raise_exception('No messages provided.') }}
{%- endif %}
{%- if tools and tools is iterable and tools is not mapping %}
    {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' }}
    {{- "# Tools\n\nYou have access to the following functions:\n\n<tools>" }}
    {%- for tool in tools %}
        {{- "\n" }}
        {{- tool | tojson }}
    {%- endfor %}
    {{- "\n</tools>" }}
    {{- '\n\nIf you choose to call a function ONLY reply in the following format with NO suffix:\n\n<tool_call>\n<function=example_function_name>\n<parameter=example_parameter_1>\nvalue_1\n</parameter>\n<parameter=example_parameter_2>\nThis is the value for the second parameter\nthat can span\nmultiple lines\n</parameter>\n</function>\n</tool_call>\n\n<IMPORTANT>\nReminder:\n- Function calls MUST follow the specified format: an inner <function=...></function> block must be nested within <tool_call></tool_call> XML tags\n- Required parameters MUST be specified\n- You may provide optional reasoning for your function call in natural language BEFORE the function call, but NOT after\n- If there is no function call available, answer the question like normal with your current knowledge and do not tell the user about function calls\n</IMPORTANT>' }}
    {%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
        {%- set content = render_content(messages[0].content, false, true)|trim %}
        {%- if content %}
            {{- '\n\n' + content }}
        {%- endif %}
    {%- endif %}
    {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
{%- else %}
    {%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
        {%- set content = render_content(messages[0].content, false, true)|trim %}
        {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' + content + '<|im_end|>\n' }}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endif %}
{%- set ns = namespace(multi_step_tool=true, last_query_index=messages|length - 1) %}
{%- for message in messages[::-1] %}
    {%- set index = (messages|length - 1) - loop.index0 %}
    {%- if ns.multi_step_tool and message.role == "user" %}
        {%- set content = render_content(message.content, false)|trim %}
        {%- if not(content.startswith('<tool_response>') and content.endswith('</tool_response>')) %}
            {%- set ns.multi_step_tool = false %}
            {%- set ns.last_query_index = index %}
        {%- endif %}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endfor %}
{%- if ns.multi_step_tool %}
    {{- raise_exception('No user query found in messages.') }}
{%- endif %}
{%- for message in messages %}
    {%- set content = render_content(message.content, true)|trim %}
    {%- if message.role == "system" %}
        {%- if not loop.first %}
            {{- raise_exception('System message must be at the beginning.') }}
        {%- endif %}
    {%- elif message.role == "user" %}
        {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + content + '<|im_end|>' + '\n' }}
    {%- elif message.role == "assistant" %}
        {%- set reasoning_content = '' %}
        {%- if message.reasoning_content is string %}
            {%- set reasoning_content = message.reasoning_content %}
        {%- else %}
            {%- if '</think>' in content %}
                {%- set reasoning_content = content.split('</think>')[0].rstrip('\n').split('<think>')[-1].lstrip('\n') %}
                {%- set content = content.split('</think>')[-1].lstrip('\n') %}
            {%- endif %}
        {%- endif %}
        {%- set reasoning_content = reasoning_content|trim %}
        {%- if (preserve_thinking is defined and preserve_thinking is true) or (loop.index0 > ns.last_query_index) %}
            {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n<think>\n' + reasoning_content + '\n</think>\n\n' + content }}
        {%- else %}
            {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + content }}
        {%- endif %}
        {%- if message.tool_calls and message.tool_calls is iterable and message.tool_calls is not mapping %}
            {%- for tool_call in message.tool_calls %}
                {%- if tool_call.function is defined %}
                    {%- set tool_call = tool_call.function %}
                {%- endif %}
                {%- if loop.first %}
                    {%- if content|trim %}
                        {{- '\n\n<tool_call>\n<function=' + tool_call.name + '>\n' }}
                    {%- else %}
                        {{- '<tool_call>\n<function=' + tool_call.name + '>\n' }}
                    {%- endif %}
                {%- else %}
                    {{- '\n<tool_call>\n<function=' + tool_call.name + '>\n' }}
                {%- endif %}
                {%- if tool_call.arguments is defined %}
                    {%- for args_name, args_value in tool_call.arguments|items %}
                        {{- '<parameter=' + args_name + '>\n' }}
                        {%- set args_value = args_value | string if args_value is string else args_value | tojson | safe %}
                        {{- args_value }}
                        {{- '\n</parameter>\n' }}
                    {%- endfor %}
                {%- endif %}
                {{- '</function>\n</tool_call>' }}
            {%- endfor %}
        {%- endif %}
        {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
    {%- elif message.role == "tool" %}
        {%- if loop.previtem and loop.previtem.role != "tool" %}
            {{- '<|im_start|>user' }}
        {%- endif %}
        {{- '\n<tool_response>\n' }}
        {{- content }}
        {{- '\n</tool_response>' }}
        {%- if not loop.last and loop.nextitem.role != "tool" %}
            {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
        {%- elif loop.last %}
            {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
        {%- endif %}
    {%- else %}
        {{- raise_exception('Unexpected message role.') }}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endfor %}
{%- if add_generation_prompt %}
    {{- '<|im_start|>assistant\n' }}
    {%- if enable_thinking is defined and enable_thinking is false %}
        {{- '<think>\n\n</think>\n\n' }}
    {%- else %}
        {{- '<think>\n' }}
    {%- endif %}
{%- endif %}

Sampling defaults

top_k
20
top_p
0.95
temperature
1

Stop strings

<|im_end|> <|endoftext|>

Evidence & provenance

Source

Revision pin
6a9e13bd6fc8f0983b9b99948120bc37f49c13e9
Manifest
Present

License

Name
apache-2.0
Commercial use
yes
Access
Open

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