Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B provider comparison

qwen/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...

Endpoints:: 5
Context:: 262.1K
Input:: text, image, video
Output:: text

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At a glance

Comparison winners

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens using the latest published median speed data.

Best cost/speed trade-off

Venicevenice/fp8

$0.1167 / 1M tokens

10.43 s estimated response

Cheapest

SiliconFlowsiliconflow/fp8

$0.1167 / 1M tokens

$0.000175 for the sample request

Fastest

Venicevenice/fp8

10.43 s estimated response

$0.1167 / 1M tokens

Visual comparison

Price and performance charts

Compare published endpoint pricing and estimated response time visually.

Effective price by endpoint

USD per 1 million tokens for input and output. Lower is better.

SiliconFlow has the lowest estimated cost for 1,000 input and 500 output tokens at $0.000175.

Estimated cost vs. response time

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens. Cost is shown in USD per 1 million tokens. Lower and further left is better; the single best cost/speed trade-off appears at full opacity.

4 providers have complete pricing and speed data. Venice is closest to the ideal combination of lowest cost and fastest response.

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Provider endpoints

Prompt and completion prices are effective USD per token as published by OpenRouter. Missing speed data never removes an endpoint.

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Endpoint comparison for Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Provider / route	Current pricing ↗	Speed measurements	Endpoint details
Provider / route SiliconFlow`siliconflow/fp8` Cheapest	Current pricing Input price $0.1 / 1M tokens Output price $0.15 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.000175	Speed measurements 500-token response 28.21 s Response starts 1.90 s Output speed 19.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.34% Context 262.1K Model format fp8 Max output 262.1K 13 parameters frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p
Provider / route DeepInfra`deepinfra/bf16`	Current pricing Input price $0.1 / 1M tokens Output price $0.15 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.000175	Speed measurements 500-token response Insufficient recent data Response starts Insufficient recent data Output speed Insufficient recent data	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) Insufficient recent data Context 262.1K Model format bf16 Max output 81.9K 17 parameters frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, max_tokens, min_p, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p
Provider / route Venice`venice/fp8` FastestBest cost/speed trade-off	Current pricing Input price $0.1 / 1M tokens Output price $0.15 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.000175	Speed measurements 500-token response 10.43 s Response starts 0.81 s Output speed 52.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.65% Context 256K Model format fp8 Max output 32.8K 15 parameters frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p
Provider / route Parasail`parasail/bf16`	Current pricing Input price $0.1 / 1M tokens Output price $0.25 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.000225	Speed measurements 500-token response 13.69 s Response starts 0.53 s Output speed 38.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 100.00% Context 262.1K Model format bf16 Max output 262.1K 16 parameters frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p
Provider / route Together`together`	Current pricing Input price $0.17 / 1M tokens Output price $0.25 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.000295	Speed measurements 500-token response 11.47 s Response starts 0.36 s Output speed 45.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.98% Context 262.1K Model format unknown Max output N/a 16 parameters frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, max_tokens, min_p, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p

Endpoint data fetched Jul 15, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC.

Qwen3.5-9B deployment guide

How to choose a Qwen3.5-9B inference provider

Qwen3.5-9B is indexed here as a text model by Qwen, with 5 provider endpoints from SiliconFlow, DeepInfra, Venice, Parasail, Together. The comparison preserves each exact OpenRouter routing tag so pricing and performance observations can be connected to the route an application would actually request.

Match the endpoint to the workload

The model publishes a 262.1K-token context window. It accepts text, image, video input and returns text output. 19 distinct supported parameters appear across the listed routes. Confirm limits on the specific endpoint rather than assuming every host exposes the same configuration.

Compare the real request economics

SiliconFlow currently has the lowest estimated cost for the standard 1,000-input/500-output-token sample at $0.000175. Input-heavy and output-heavy applications can produce a different result, so review both per-million-token prices in the endpoint table.

Balance response start and generation speed

Venice currently has the shortest estimated 500-token response at 10.43 seconds. Venice is the single endpoint closest to the current ideal cost/speed combination. Recent observations can change, so validate finalists with your own prompts.