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Qwen3.5-9B Pricing

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Qwen · 262K tokens context

Qwen3.5-9B from Qwen costs $0.170 per 1 million input tokens and $0.250 per 1 million output tokens as of October 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 262,144-token context window (approximately 196,608 words) with a 236K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0002 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0017.

Qwen3.5-9B pricing and capability summary
Input price$0.170 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.250 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio1.5×
Context window262,144 tokens (~196,608 words)
Maximum output235,929 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0002
TierFast
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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.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$0.170

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$0.250

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

262K tokens

max 236K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.000227$0.0001
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.000567$0.00025
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.00085$0.000375
100K token document100,000$0.017$0.0075

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • ✓Extremely cheap at $0.170/1M input tokens
  • ✓Large 262K-token context window
  • ✓Low latency for high-throughput workloads
  • ✓Multimodal: understands images as well as text

Limitations

  • –Less capable than flagship models on complex reasoning
  • –Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider

Best Use Cases

High-volume classification
Text extraction and summarization
Simple chat and Q&A
Cost-sensitive pipelines

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