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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-18.3
Input Price$0.19/M$0.10/M
Output Price$1.12/M$0.15/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output65,53632,768
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-22.5

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 FlashQwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Code Review 132 130
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 136 131
Bug Fixing 136 134
Unit Test Generation 124 123
Code Documentation 131 128
Regex Writing 119 122
CI/CD Pipelines 120 119
Frontend Component Design 122 124
Data Analysis 124 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 129
ETL Scripting 128 125
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 129
Long-Document Summarization 137 133
Short-Form Summarization 123 125

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

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