What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 9B?

Qwen3.5 9B requires approximately 19.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 9B and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 9B is developed by Qwen, a model with 9b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3.5 9B?

Qwen3.5 9B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.5 9B by Qwen — VRAM 19.3GB

Name: Qwen3.5 9B
Author: Qwen

Qwen3.5 9B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 19.3GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.46.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-9b-bas... Conversational Deploy:azure Deploy:sagemaker Endpoints compatible Eval-results Image-text-to-text Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5 9B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	19.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-4 5.3 GB: 2-of-4 5.4 GB: 3-of-4 3.3 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Qwen3.5 9B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen3.5 9B MLX 4bit	4	580012	5 GB
Qwen3.5 9B MLX 8bit	1	550497	10 GB
Qwen3.5 9B AWQ	24	1285582	12 GB
...us Reasoning Distilled V2 GGUF	389	30361	0 GB
Qwen3.5 9B AWQ 4bit	35	214142	9 GB
Qwen3.5 9B MLX 4bit	151	22827	5 GB
Palette RP 9B 2609 V0.05	3	226	19 GB
Nyx RP 9B Instruct 2608 V1	5	3167	18 GB
Roasteramus	4	717	18 GB
Angry Claudius 9B	0	958	18 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3.5 9B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Qwen3.8 Distilled 9B NPU2	256K / GB	3413	4
Clef Flash	0K / 18.8 GB	15722	664
MiMo V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	5705	429
Qwable 9B Claude Fable 5	0K / 18.8 GB	1088	115
Ornith 1.0 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	921469	553
LensVLM 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	1840	258
Qwythos 9B Claude Mythos 5 1M	0K / 18.8 GB	37427	906
Negentropy Claude Opus 4.7 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	63	26
Qwen3.8 9B Distill	0K / 19.3 GB	5839	148
Qwythos 9B V2	0K / 19.3 GB	19208	156

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B.