Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash

qwen · Released Feb 25, 2026
Intelligence #223 / 699
38.0 our score
Speed
Not reported
Input Price #186 / 701
$0.065 per 1M tokens
Output Price #221 / 701
$0.260 per 1M tokens
Context #97 / 701
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen3.5-Flash is positioned as a high-volume Qwen model with a very large 1M token context window. It accepts text, image, and video input and supports tool use and function calling, giving it a useful operational profile for document-heavy automation. The available data does not include benchmark results, so its reasoning, coding, and reliability cannot be placed confidently against measured alternatives.

The pricing strongly favours bulk traffic, including SEO classification, content preprocessing, long-document extraction, and routine multimodal transformations. Its context capacity can reduce the need to split large client materials into many requests. Design for Online should pilot it on lower-risk workflows first, then expand usage if output consistency and tool execution meet production requirements.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Qwen3.5-Flash offers a 1M token context, multimodal input, tool use, and very low pricing, making it attractive for high-volume document and content workflows. It has no benchmark data here, so capability claims should be validated before critical deployment.

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DFO Verdict

Qwen3.5-Flash offers a 1M token context, multimodal input, tool use, and very low pricing, making it attractive for high-volume document and content workflows. It has no benchmark data here, so capability claims should be validated before critical deployment.

#223 of 699 overall Up 81 this week

How Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash compares

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $0.07 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 73% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 68% of models #223
Price: cheaper than 73% of models #186
Context: larger than 86% of models #97
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash $0.07 in $0.26 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash 1M

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence0Technical0Value8.3Content7.5
Performance profile

Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.07 $0.000065
Output $0.26 $0.000260

What would Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash

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About Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash

The Qwen3.5 native vision-language Flash models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. Compared to the..

Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash

How much does Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash cost?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash costs $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.26 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).

What can Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash do?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash is developed by Qwen and was released on February 25, 2026.

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