Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 565 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.040 input and $0.150 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3.5-9B delivers strong agentic performance and vision support at just $0.04/1M input tokens, with a 262K context window; coding capability is limited relative to larger models.
Assessed May 31, 2026
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Performance Profile
How Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B compares
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B ranks #122 of 370 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #136 of 307 for coding, #82 of 282 for agentic tasks. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 82% of the models we list. At $0.04 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 75% of comparable models.
About Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal foundation model from the Qwen3.5 family, designed to deliver strong reasoning, coding, and visual understanding in an efficient 9B-parameter architecture. It uses a unified vision-language design..
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Performance Indices
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3.5-9b
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | March 10, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 81,920 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.04 | $0.000040 |
| Output | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
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Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
How much does Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B cost?
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).
Is Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B ranks #136 of 307 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B do?
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B is developed by Qwen and was released on March 10, 2026.
