Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
9.7 B
Context
30d
9.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
QuantTrio · B
Params
9.7 B
Context
30d
984 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ
Parameters 9.7 B 9.7 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 9,171,187 983,667
Downloads all time 63.3 M 4.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2026-03-03

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

14.3 M984 K
Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ · fp16 15.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.5-9B · fp16 23.2 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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