Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)

By Alibaba · released 2026-03-02 (7 months) · snapshot 2026-10-24

Not ranked · benchmark data missingopen weights
Intelligence index
13.30
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
$0.17 / $0.25
End-to-end time
7.16s
Better than…

Is Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning) on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Not ranked · benchmark data missing

Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning) does not report both selected axis metrics.

At a glance

Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning) today

Time to first answer0.89s
Output speed80 tok/s
Context window262k
Input modalitiesText, Image, Video
Not plotted

Incomplete benchmark data

Intelligence and benchmark cost are both required to place this model on the frontier. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

Intelligence index
13.30
Benchmark cost
Not reported
Input / 1M tokens
0.17
Output / 1M tokens
0.25
Context window
262k

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: qwen3-5-9b-non-reasoning.

Matchup

Compare head to head

Suggested: what beats it, its effort levels, and frontier models near its price.

Release

What the Qwen3.5 9B release did to the frontier on 2026-03-02

None of its 2 effort levels reached the frontier at launch.

Closest miss: Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning), 0.4 points below gpt-oss-120b (High) at 2.7× the cost.

Deciding

Should you use Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)?

Should you use Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)?

No verdict: it does not report both intelligence and benchmark cost.

What is better and cheaper than Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)?

Other models on the intelligence-vs-cost frontier

How much does Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning) cost?

$0.17/$0.25 in/out per 1M tokens, and - to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning) is Pareto-optimal.

Y axisX axisOn the frontier
AA intelligence indexAA total cost to run (USD)no data
AA intelligence indexEnd-to-end total seconds
AA intelligence indexOutput speed tokens/sec
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