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Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score18.335.5
Input Price$0.10/M$0.20/M
Output Price$0.15/M$1.56/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,76865,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index22.537.8

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.5-9BQwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 133 135
Code Review 130 133
Code Refactoring 131 133
Bug Fixing 134 137
Unit Test Generation 123 125
Code Documentation 128 129
Regex Writing 122 123
CI/CD Pipelines 119 121
Frontend Component Design 124 126
Data Analysis 127 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 129
ETL Scripting 125 127
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 129 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 130
Long-Document Summarization 133 135
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 121 123

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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