Qwen3.5-9B
Last verified August 3, 2026 · Alibaba pricing ↗$0.100/1M input · $0.150/1M output · 262K context · Alibaba
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When to use Qwen3.5-9B
Tiny but capable model from Alibaba. At $0.05/1M input, it's nearly free. Perfect for simple tasks where you need a model but cost is the primary concern.
- Ultra-low cost at $0.05/1M input
- Small enough to self-host on modest hardware
- Good for simple classification and extraction
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Pricing Details
AlibabaApache 2.0 open weights, so there is no first-party Alibaba rate: this model is absent from the Model Studio price table and the figure here is OpenRouter's, the route that actually sells it, at $0.10/$0.15 per 1M over 262K context. Native multimodal (text and image) in a 9B architecture. Launch date corrected to 2026-03-10, OpenRouter's listing date. Hosts vary; prompt caching on OpenRouter can cut effective input cost substantially on repeated context.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.1
Output / 1M tokens
$0.15
Context Window
262K
Max Output
33K
Price History
Launched at current price on 2026-03-10. No price changes recorded.
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