Qwen3.5-9B pricing.
prices as of · 27 providers · 33 prices
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3.5-9B holds 262k tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Open weights, so anyone may host it, which is why the prices below differ so much.
Qwen3.5-9B costs $0.10 in and $0.15 out per million tokens from OpenRouter; the cheapest price we can explain is $0.27 at Crof, checked 16 Sept 2026.
OpenRouter list price
$0.45/M tokens
$0.10 in · $0.15 out
read · 87% below the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$0.27/M tokens
$0.04 in · $0.15 out · 40% under list
Crofread
What it costs for your work
OpenRouter list price
$0.069a month
cheapest we can explain · Crof
$0.033a month
difference
$0.036saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling Qwen3.5-9B
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against OpenRouter's price. Alibaba Cloud trained Qwen3.5-9B and sells it on no catalog we read, so the price every row is measured against is OpenRouter's.
Cheaper, and we know why
9 pricesBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
- Crof
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.04 / $0.15in / out per M
0.60×of list price
- Crof
Serves the open weights at fp8, a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
fp8 precisionCrof ↗$0.04 / $0.15in / out per M
0.60×of list price
NanoGPTRoutes to a host serving the open weights; precision not disclosed.
256k context hereNanoGPT ↗$0.05 / $0.15in / out per M
0.67×of list price
- Darkbloom
Serves the open weights at fp4, a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
fp4 precision$0.08 / $0.13in / out per M
0.82×of list price
Nous PortalResells OpenRouter's catalog at 0.80× the listed price, funded by a subscription whose credits carry a 10% bonus.
$0.08 / $0.13in / out per M
0.82×of list price
$0.09 / $0.13in / out per M
0.89×of list price
Merge Gateway10% under the list price, an ordinary reseller margin.
$0.09 / $0.13in / out per M
0.89×of list price
$0.09 / $0.13in / out per M
0.89×of list price
$0.09 / $0.16in / out per M
0.92×of list price
Same price as the maker
22 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cortecs15% above OpenRouter's price.Routes only to EU-hosted providers, prices in euros, and adds a flat 5% fee.
$0.12 / $0.17in / out per M
1.15×of list price
$0.12 / $0.18in / out per M
1.20×of list price
$0.10 / $0.25in / out per M
1.22×of list price
- TensorX
50% above OpenRouter's price.
$0.15 / $0.20in / out per M
1.44×of list price
$0.15 / $0.20in / out per M
1.44×of list price
MixlayerThe same price OpenRouter charges.
$0.10 / $0.40in / out per M
1.56×of list price
$0.17 / $0.25in / out per M
1.69×of list price
$0.17 / $0.25in / out per M
1.69×of list price
- routing.run
60% above OpenRouter's price.
$0.16 / $0.48in / out per M
2.13×of list price
Regolo AI50% above OpenRouter's price.
$0.15 / $0.60in / out per M
2.33×of list price
$0.30 / $0.30in / out per M
2.67×of list price
$0.22 / $1.74in / out per M
5.33×of list price
Cheaper, and nobody says why
1 price · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
FeatherlessWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
33k context hereFeatherless ↗$0.17 / $0.25in / out per M
1.69×of list price
Given away with limits
1 free tiers · never rankedThese providers give Qwen3.5-9B away inside a quota of their own. A limit is not a price, so none of them counts as cheapest here or anywhere else on the site.
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Frequently asked
- Who sells Qwen3.5-9B cheapest?
- Crof, at $0.04 in and $0.15 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
- Is Qwen3.5-9B open weights?
- Yes. Alibaba Cloud publishes the weights, so anyone may host Qwen3.5-9B, which is why 27 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does Qwen3.5-9B hold?
- 262,144 tokens in one call, which is about 262k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Qwen3.5-9B compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.45 per million tokens, OpenRouter's price is 87% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.