Qwen3.5 9B is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 236K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.1 / 1M input and $0.15 / 1M output. A 9B-parameter dense LLM from the Qwen3.5 series, offering a strong balance of capability and efficiency for general text generation tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-5-9b
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecating
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output236K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters9B
HuggingFace Likes1,315
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)6,481,835
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)9,617,908
Release Date · 7 months ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#248
Coding Index
#124
GPQA
#152
HLE
#172
IFBench
#86
Time to First Token
#370
SciCode
#328
LCR
#143
TerminalBench Hard
#133
TAU2
#83
Output TPS
#136

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video✓
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling✓
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
DeepInfra logo
DeepInfra
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
$0.1$0.15
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
ovhcloud:Qwen3.5-9B
$0.12$0.18
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
together_ai:Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
$0.17$0.25
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3.5-9b
$0.1$0.15
Together AI logo
Together AI
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
$0.17$0.25

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3.5 9B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 22 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
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Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hr
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hr
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hr
7 more instances can run Qwen3.5 9B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.5 9B262K$0.100$0.150Current
Qwen3.5 27B262K$0.260$2.40Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3p5-9b
alibaba-qwen3-5-9b
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
huggingface-vlm-qwen3-5-9b
openrouter/qwen/qwen3.5-9b
openrouter/qwen/qwen3.5-9b:batch
qwen/qwen3.5-9b
Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
qwen3-5-9b
qwen3-5-9b-non-reasoning
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B