Qwen3.5-9B pricing, benchmarks and cost analysis

Qwen3.5-9B costs $103 a month for the default workload of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens, 10,000 requests a day with 40% cached input. That is 88% below the median model ($873). It ranks #7 of 101 on cost, where #1 is the cheapest.

It scores 139.3 on the Epoch Capabilities Index, #66 of 66 models with a score. The cheapest stable-priced model that scores at least as high is Qwen3.7 Flash (144.1) at $31.74 a month, 69% less.

It generates 59 tokens per second, 30% slower than the median model (84), #23 of 28. Cached input is 90% cheaper than fresh input, in line with the 90% median. The weights are open, so other hosts can serve it and prices may differ from the provider's own.