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Qwen3.5-9BOPEN
Qwen3.5-9B (Alibaba): live API pricing, context window and the best open-source alternatives, tracked daily by olud.ai.
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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.
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 hourly, 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 21.4 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 13.3%, Long Context Reasoning 59%, SciCode 27.5%, IFBench 66.7%, τ²-Bench 86.8%, τ-Bench Banking 8.2%, 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 72.4 tokens per second, with a median 0.95s 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.