Qwen3.5 0.8B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 0.8B (Reasoning)

Alibaba · Released Mar 2, 2026 Efficient
Intelligence #177 / 556
44.7 Our Score
AA Index #293 / 365
10.5 Artificial Analysis
Input #119 / 557
$0.010 per 1M tokens
Output #125 / 557
$0.050 per 1M tokens
Context
Not reported

Analysis Summary

Qwen3.5 0.8B (Reasoning) sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #177 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.010 input and $0.050 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market.

Editorial notes

Qwen3.5 0.8B (Reasoning) is a sub-1B model with minimal benchmark performance, priced at $0.01/1M tokens; practical only for trivial tasks where cost dominates all other considerations.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence1.5Technical6Value7.3Content2.5
Intelligence 1.5/10
Technical 6/10
Content 2.5/10
Value 7.3/10

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

10.5 Intelligence Index
47.7 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 11.1% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 1.2% Humanity's Last Exam

Technical

τ²-Bench 47.7% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 21.5% Instruction following
LCR 5.3% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

ProviderAlibaba
Release Date March 2, 2026
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.01 $0.000010
Output $0.05 $0.000050