Groq qwen/qwen3.6-27b shutdown date

Name: Groq: qwen/qwen3.6-27b (Shutdown)
Start: 2026-09-14
End: 2026-09-14

qwen/qwen3.6-27b shuts down on 2026-09-14 for free and developer tiers; enterprise committed-spend customers are not affected.

R.I.P.killed 34 days ago

Change: Shutdown
Effective: Sep 14, 2026
Replacement: qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Source: console.groq.com
Vendor's words: September 14, 2026: qwen/qwen3.6-27b. In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, we announced the deprecation of qwen/qwen3.6-27b in favor of qwen/qwen3.8-27b . Qwen 3.8 27B is the direct successor: a 27B multimodal model with the same 131K context window, thinking and instruct modes, tunable reasoning effort, tool use, and JSON mode. This deprecation applies to free and developer-tier usage; en…

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