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

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score43.218.3
Input Price$0.33/M$0.10/M
Output Price$1.95/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_index44.622.5

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQwen: Qwen3.5-9B
SQL Generation 139 133
Code Review 140 130
Code Completion 132 129
Code Refactoring 143 131
Bug Fixing 144 134
Unit Test Generation 129 123
Code Documentation 135 128
Regex Writing 124 122
CI/CD Pipelines 125 119
Frontend Component Design 127 124
Data Analysis 130 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 134 125
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 129
Long-Document Summarization 144 133
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 127 121

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

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