Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen · released 2026-03-01 · Apache-2.0 license
Qwen3.5-9B is Alibaba's small, natively multimodal reasoning model (March 2026, Apache-2.0) with 262K context, scoring 32 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, well above the median for its size.
Key specs
| Type | Local open-weight |
|---|---|
| Parameters | — |
| Architecture | — |
| Context window | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | — |
| Modalities | text, vision |
| Recommended backends | — |
| Minimum viable rig | — |
Benchmark scores
| GPQA Diamond | 81.7% |
|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — |
| AIME | 92.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.5% |
| BFCL v3 (tool use) | — |
| Composite score | 8.56 |
| Community rating | No reviews yet |
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths: Very high intelligence-per-size (AA Index 32); Natively multimodal at 9B with 262K context; Strong instruction following (IFEval 91.5) and tool use (BFCL-V4 66.1); Apache-2.0
Weaknesses: Slow, verbose output for its size; Coding (LiveCodeBench 65.6) trails larger MoE peers