Qwen3.5-9B vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
9.7 B
Context
—
30d
6.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
304.6 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
836 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.5-9B DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 9.7 B 304.6 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
Context length 262,144 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 6,689,005 835,578
Downloads all time 71.3 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2026-08-31
API input price / 1M tokens $0.08 $0.22
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $0.65
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.21 $0.86
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.04 $0.0069
AA Intelligence Index 13.3 34.8
AA Coding Index 23.5 65
AA Agentic Index — 47.5
Max output tokens 65,536 262,144
API providers 5 3
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3.5-9B $0.21
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp $0.86

Qwen3.5-9B is 4.1× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

14.3 M836 K
Qwen3.5-9B DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.5-9B · fp16 23.2 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 6,034.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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