Qwen3.5 2B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 2B (Reasoning)

Alibaba · Released Mar 2, 2026 Efficient
Intelligence #233 / 556
36.9 Our Score
AA Index #200 / 365
16.3 Artificial Analysis
Input #125 / 557
$0.020 per 1M tokens
Output #134 / 557
$0.100 per 1M tokens
Context
Not reported

Analysis Summary

Qwen3.5 2B (Reasoning) sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #233 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.020 input and $0.100 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market.

Editorial notes

Qwen3.5 2B (Reasoning) is a very small model with limited intelligence and coding capability, priced at $0.02/1M tokens; suitable only for simple, low-stakes automation at minimal cost.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence2.8Technical1.9Value7.3Content3
Intelligence 2.8/10
Technical 1.9/10
Content 3/10
Value 7.3/10

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

16.3 Intelligence Index
3.5 Coding Index
36.4 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 45.6% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 2.1% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 2.8% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 3.8% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 69% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 31.5% Instruction following
LCR 23.7% 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 $0.02 $0.000020
Output $0.10 $0.000100