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

Qwen3.5 9B Base 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 Base and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 9B Base 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 Base?

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

Qwen3.5 9B Base by Qwen — VRAM 19.3GB

Name: Qwen3.5 9B Base
Author: Qwen

Qwen3.5 9B Base is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 19.3GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34.

Conversational Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

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

Qwen3.5 9B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 9B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/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 Base

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen3.5 9B 8bit	17	45652	10 GB
Qwen3.5 9B 4bit	12	17566	5 GB
Qwen3.5 9B 6bit	5	790	8 GB
Qwen3.5 9B 5bit	1	332	7 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3.5 9B Base

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Qwen3.8 Distilled 9B NPU2	256K / GB	4474	4
Qwen3.5 9B	0K / 19.3 GB	12207758	1799
Qwable 9B Claude Fable 5	0K / 18.8 GB	1088	115
Ornith 1.0 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	1006075	546
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
WeMM Embedding 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	2618	105
Qwythos 9B V2	0K / 19.3 GB	19208	156
Ornith 1.5 9B	0K / 18.9 GB	1324	120

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