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Qwen3.5 is an open-weight language model from Qwen, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
Qwen3.5-9B [](https://chat.qwen.ai) [!Note] This repository contains model weights and configuration files for the post-trained model in the Hugging Face Transformers format. These artifacts are compatible with Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, KTransformers, etc. Over recent months, we have intensified our focus on developing foundation models that deliver exceptional utility and performance. Qwen3.5 represents a significant leap forward, integrating breakthroughs in multimodal learning, architectural efficiency, reinforcement learning scale, and global accessibility to empower developers and enterprises with unprecedented capability and efficiency. Qwen3.5 Highlights Qwen3.5 features the following enhancement: - Unified Vision-Language Foundation: Early fusion training on multimodal tokens achieves cross-generational parity with Qwen3 and outperforms Qwen3-VL models across reasoning, coding, agents, and visual understanding benchmarks. - Efficient Hybrid Architecture: Gated Delta Networks combined with sparse Mixture-of-Experts deliver high-throughput inference with minimal latency and cost overhead. - Scalable RL Generalization: Reinforcement learning scaled across million-agent environments with progressively complex task distributions for robust real-world adaptability. - Global Linguistic Coverage: Expanded support to 201 languages and dialects, enabling inclusive, worldwide deployment with nuanced cultural and regional understanding. - Next-Generation Training Infrastructure: Near-100% multimodal training efficiency compared to text-only training and asynchronous RL frameworks supporting massive-scale agent scaffolds and environment orchestration. For more details, please refer to our blog post Qwen3.5. Model Overview - Type: Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder - Training Stage: Pre-training & Post-training - Language Model - Number of Parameters: 9B - Hidden Dimension: 4096 - Token Embedding: 248320 (Padded) - Number of Layers: 32 - Hidden Layout: 8 × (3 × (Gated DeltaNet → FFN) → 1 × (Gated Attention → FFN)) - Gated DeltaNet: - Number of Linear Attention Heads: 32 for V and 16 for QK - Head Dimension: 128 - Gated Attention: - Number of Atte
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | Qwen |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Parameters (lead) | 9.7B |
| Variants | 8 |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Based on | Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B-Base |
| Released | 2026-02-27 |
| Popularity | 12.6M downloads / month |
| Likes | 1,878 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-9B | 9.7B | BF16 | ~22.2 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3.5-4B | 4.7B | BF16 | ~10.7 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3.5-2B | 2.3B | BF16 | ~5.2 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3.5-27B | 27.8B | BF16 | ~63.9 GB | — | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | 36.0B | BF16 | ~82.7 GB | — | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B | 873M | BF16 | ~2 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-FP8 | 125.1B | FP8 | ~143.9 GB | — | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8 | 36.0B | FP8 | ~41.3 GB | — | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys qwen3-5 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (qwen3-5 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"qwen3-5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
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Licence
Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗