Qwen 3.5 Small models
- fully open source
- beats models 4x it’s size
- 9B model performs on par with GPT OSS 120B while being 13x smaller
- outperforms Gemini 3 flash and Claude sonnet 4.5 on select benchmarks
- runs on any laptop
- even works on a phone
- completely free.
Qwen
@Alibaba_Qwen
· Mar 2
🚀 Introducing the Qwen 3.5 Small Model Series
Qwen3.5-0.8B · Qwen3.5-2B · Qwen3.5-4B · Qwen3.5-9B
✨ More intelligence, less compute.
These small models are built on the same Qwen3.5 foundation — native multimodal, improved architecture, scaled RL:
• 0.8B / 2B → tiny, fast, great for edge device
• 4B → a surprisingly strong multimodal base for lightweight agents
• 9B → compact, but already closing the gap with much larger models
And yes — we’re also releasing the Base models as well.
We hope this better supports research, experimentation, and real-world industrial innovation.
Hugging Face: huggingface.co
ModelScope: modelscope.cn