Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #101 of 544 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 is an ultra-cheap multimodal model at $0.10/$0.15 per million tokens with vision and video support, though reasoning and coding benchmarks are limited, best suited to cost-sensitive SEO and content tasks.
Assessed May 5, 2026
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Performance Profile
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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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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