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Is Qwen3.5-9B out? Yes, since March 10, 2026

Yes. Qwen3.5-9B has been available since March 10, 2026, when it was first listed in the OpenRouter catalogue.

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Lab
Alibaba
Family
Qwen
Release date
Source
OpenRouter catalogue

What changed

  • context 262k tokens · Context window of Qwen3.5-9B. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the previous model of the same tier, but the gap is beyond what a percentage explains.
  • price +21 % · Prompt price compared with Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, same tier in this family. Went from $0.140 / MTok to $0.170 / MTok. Lower is better.

About Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal foundation model from the Qwen3.5 family, designed to deliver strong reasoning, coding, and visual understanding in an efficient 9B-parameter architecture. It uses a unified vision-language design...

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Questions

When was Qwen3.5-9B released?
Qwen3.5-9B has been available since March 10, 2026, when it was first listed in the OpenRouter catalogue.
Who makes Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.5-9B is made by Alibaba.
What comes after Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.6 Plus, released on April 2, 2026.