Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking vs Qwen3.5 9B
Compare Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking and Qwen3.5 9B, both from Qwen, context windows of 262K vs 262K, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Qwen3.5 9BRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking has the edge — bigger model tier.
Qwen3.5 9B is 40x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Input
$1.20
Output
$6.00
Qwen3.5 9B
Input
$0.10
12× cheaper
Output
$0.15
40× cheaper
Qwen3.5 9B is cheaper on both — 12× input, 40× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
42%
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking uses 137.1x more emoji
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Qwen3.5 9B
61%Vocabulary47%
15wSentence Length15w
0.23Hedging0.41
5.2Bold6.9
3.9Lists4.8
1.37Emoji0.00
1.22Headings0.91
0.04Transitions0.12
Based on 13 + 21 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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