Alibaba · Qwen Small line · lightweight · open weights
Qwen 3.5 Small was released by Alibaba on March 2, 2026, as an open-weights lightweight model in the Qwen Small line.
Alibaba's small open Qwen3.5 models add built-in image and video understanding, and the 9B beats the previous generation's Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 on 24 of 26 of Alibaba's language tests.
Compared with Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 · comparison chosen by Alibaba
The 9B model answers graduate-level science questions better than last generation's 30B model
GPQA Diamond — graduate-level science questions, Qwen3.5-9B
81.7%
▲ up from 73.4% for Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 · +8 points
The 9B model scores 1 point higher on the all-round intelligence index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 — one score averaging 10 hard tests
11
▲ Qwen3.5-9B with reasoning · up from 10 for Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 · +1 point
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Qwen 3.5 Small is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Latest: Qwen 3.5 Small · Mar 2, 2026
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