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Qwen3.5-9B

Best configuration ranks #347 of 610 on the BenchLeader Index at 47.7 ±5.3 (no reasoning reasoning effort). Last measured 24 Feb 2026stale: no new result in six months. Released 24 Feb 2026.

Blended price
$0.190/M
$0.170 in · $0.250 out
Output speed
89 tok/s
First answer
0.74 s
first token 0.74 s
Context
262k
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index48
  2. Reasoning58
  3. Agents & tools49
  4. Maths51
  5. Knowledge31
  6. Instruction following41
  7. Multimodal51
  8. Long context49
  9. Composite46

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Default” means the publisher did not say which setting was used.

EffortIndexRankSpeedFirst answerChat reply costCategories
no reasoningbest47.7#34789 tok/s0.74 s$0.0001Agents & tools 49 · Composite 46 · Instruction following 41 · Knowledge 31 · Long context 49 · Maths 51 · Multimodal 51 · Reasoning 58
default47.5#35183 tok/s26 s$0.0001Agents & tools 35 · Coding 27 · Composite 46 · Instruction following 65 · Knowledge 39 · Long context 61 · Maths 37 · Multimodal 54 · Reasoning 58

Benchmark results

One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
GPQA Diamond78.9%#11979.0%#118Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index78.6%#20280.6%#185Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index9.4%#26914.9%#195Artificial Analysis

Coding

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
SciCode27.6%#144SciCode

Agents & tools

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
Terminal-Bench9.2%#65Terminal-Bench
Terminal-Bench Hard18.2%#16624.2%#137Artificial Analysis
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index85.1%#9286.8%#82Artificial Analysis

Maths

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
OTIS Mock AIME61.7%#14542.8%#178Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
AIME 202692.5%#23MathArena
HMMT February 202671.2%#29MathArena
MathArena Apex0.5%#41MathArena

Knowledge

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
AA-Omniscience-70.7#439-53.5#346Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
IFBench37.8%#27566.7%#90Artificial Analysis

Multimodal

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
MMMU-Pro66.8%#13669.3%#121Artificial Analysis

Long context

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
AA-LCR46.0%#26470.0%#161Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmarkno reasoningdefaultSource
Epoch Capabilities Indexnot in index139.4#101Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
AA Intelligence Index13.3#24713.7#239Artificial Analysis

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
Together49 tok/s0.47 s$0.170$0.250262k
Venice42 tok/s1.08 s$0.100$0.150256kfp8
Parasail26 tok/s4.78 s$0.100$0.250262kbf16
Darkbloom23 tok/s1.35 s$0.080$0.130262kfp4
SiliconFlow22 tok/s1.64 s$0.100$0.150262kfp8
DeepInfra15 tok/s1.15 s$0.100$0.150262kbf16

Price history

Listed price per 1M tokens over time, as recorded by OpenRouter for the provider with the longest history.

$0.00$0.069$0.138$0.206$0.275Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26
input outputnow $0.170 in · $0.250 out

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.00014.1 s
Summarise a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.00227.5 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.001417.6 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.01145.7 s
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.00043.0 s

See also

Data as of 9 Sept 2026. Compare these configurations.