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Qwen3.5 9B
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.5-9b·GA·Open weights·qwen series
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
At a glance
Reference price$0.30 / $0.30 per 1M
Cache read $0.30 · Pioneer
Lowest paid$0.04 / $0.15
CrofAI Gateway · 7.5× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context32,768
⚠ Providers report 32,768–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit32,768
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImageVideoAudio
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-02-23 / 2026-02-23
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning
Intelligence21.8
Value323
Coding28.7
Agentic7
Output speed81 tok/s
TTFT2.07 s
Cost per task$0.2416
Value formulaIQ 21.8 ÷ min blended $0.068 = 323
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 20.6 · 87 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 21.8 · 81 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 19 providers18 with public prices · 1 free
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QVAC | Gateway | Free | — | — | 32,768 | 8,192 | ||
| CrofAI | Gateway | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.008 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.05 | $0.15 | $0.025 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.09 | $0.13 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| EmpirioLabs AI qwen3-5-9b | Gateway | $0.09 | $0.13 | $0.045 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Deep Infra Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B | Cloud | $0.10 | $0.15 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.15 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.15 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.15 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| Venice AI qwen3-5-9b | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.15 | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1CrofAI$11.66
2NanoGPT$14.50
3EmpirioLabs AI$19.10
4Merge Gateway$24.50
5TensorX$26.50
6Deep Infra$27.50
1 more channels offer $0 (QVAC); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = maxeffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = highToggle (on / off)budget_tokens ≥ 1,024 ≤ 32,768effort = minimaleffort = xhigh
7 / 19 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended