Qwen3.5-Flash
Qwen · released Feb 25, 2026
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- None held
- Output
- None held
- Cached
- None held
We don't hold a list price for this model yet · hosted only — we have no record of published weights
Our take
Written Sep 17, 2026Qwen3.5-Flash is a hosted-only model: we list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host. It takes text, images and video in one request, and its long input capacity means a report or a stack of documents need not be split up first. No licence is supplied, so nothing here settles what you may do with its output.
Use it for hosted chat and multimodal work where you want to send text, images or video and get text back, or for long documents that would otherwise need splitting up first. All three hosted offers sit at the same rate, so the bill does not change with the host you pick. Skip it if you need to run the model yourself, or if you need a clear licence position before building on it.
The case for it
- Text, images and video go into the same request, so a screenshot or a clip does not have to be described in words first.
- The request capacity takes a long report or a stack of documents beside the question, though reliable recall across all of it is unverified in our data.
- All three hosted offers are at the same rate, so the bill does not change with the host you pick.
The case against it
- We list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host rather than running it yourself.
- No licence is supplied, so what you may do with the model or its output is unverified.
- The scores we hold are human-preference ratings on the text arena, which record which answer people preferred rather than whether it was correct.
How good is it?
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Arena Text (overall)98th of 168 · 1396
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Arena Coding102nd of 168 · 1436
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Arena Creative Writing107th of 168 · 1338
Arena Creative Writing is the only board that has scored it for this.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done.
Every published score for this model7 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 7 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 4 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.065 in / $0.26 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- ~52 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.065 / $0.26checked 4 hours ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Alibaba CloudThrough OpenRouter | $0.065 / $0.26checked 4 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 52 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
OpenRouterAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alibaba CloudThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 2 of 2 listings say yes. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.
Models people weigh against Qwen3.5-Flash
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We don't hold a list price for this model yet — the gap is ours, not the lab's.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images and video in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- qwen-qwen3-5-flash