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Qwen3.5-9BOPEN
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.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $0.11 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 76% of the 191 open-weight models tracked here
- 3 of 51 Alibaba models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Qwen3.5-9B, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Reasoning.
For the same budget, Qwen3.5-9B delivers 23 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
Models at this level cost $0.75 per 1M tokens (median of 14) — this one costs $0.11.
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About this model
Qwen3.5-9B is an open-weight AI model by Alibaba. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked daily, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.5-9B is an AI language model from Alibaba. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 21.8 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Qwen3.5-9B free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Qwen3.5-9B and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens.
What is Qwen3.5-9B good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 80.6%, Humanity's Last Exam 14.9%, Long Context Reasoning 65.3%, SciCode 27.5%, IFBench 66.7%, τ²-Bench 86.8%, τ-Bench Banking 7%, Terminal-Bench 29.2%, Terminal-Bench Hard 24.2%. It is particularly used for code generation.
How fast is Qwen3.5-9B?
It generates about 84.3 tokens per second, with a median 1.19s delay before the first token. Measured independently by Artificial Analysis.
Can I self-host Qwen3.5-9B?
Yes. Qwen3.5-9B has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.