The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Alibaba ·Open weights (restricted use) ·Released March 2026·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
unranked
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Speed
#231 of 316
34.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#45 of 340
$0.11
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.10 · Out $0.15
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#175 of 345
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B does not yet carry a Known Good Index score — the index needs at least one science, one mathematics and one coding result. It accepts text, image, video input, outputs text, and supports a 262k-token context window.

Pricing is $0.10 per 1M input tokens (below the $2.18 average) and $0.15 per 1M output (below the $9.91 average). At 34 tokens per second it sits in the lower middle of the tracked range.

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Technical specifications
ReasoningYes
Input modalitytext, image, video
Output modalitytext
Context window262,144 tokens
Max output262,144 tokens
WeightsOpen weights · Open weights (restricted use) (commercial use restricted)
Knowledge cutoff
Tool callingYes
Providers5 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B sits
Price

Blended USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better · Published pricing via OpenRouter

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Quality

How Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B compares against every tracked model

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Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, MATH / AIME, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from Epoch AI; we do not run these evaluations.

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Quality Breakdown

Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B · grey marker = average across tracked models · scores ingested from Epoch AI

Terminal-Bench9 / 45
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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena Elo

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B does not currently appear in any arena we ingest.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputCache discountQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed

Median output throughput across hosting providers

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Median output tokens per second across all tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

Time to first tokenEnd-to-end response
Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, median across tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B, with their own price and speed

5 providers
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
Venice $0.10 $0.15 $0.11 54 1.4s 256k
Parasail $0.10 $0.25 $0.14 38 0.4s 262k
Together $0.17 $0.25 $0.19 28 0.8s 262k
SiliconFlow $0.10 $0.15 $0.11 19 2.3s 262k
DeepInfra $0.10 $0.15 $0.11 11 0.4s 262k

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

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Blended price $0.11 per 1M · observed 26 Jul 2026
Output speed 34 tok/s · observed 26 Jul 2026
Time to first token 1.0s

No recorded changes for this model since tracking began.

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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0) Full attribution →