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Ling 3.0 tiny vs Qwen3.5-9B

Ling 3.0 tiny (InclusionAI) and Qwen3.5-9B (Qwen) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 9 September 2026

As of 9 September 2026, Ling 3.0 tiny holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#95 vs #97).

Which should you choose?

Choose Ling 3.0 tiny if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #95 against #97 (41.7 vs 41.1 points).
  • you want the more recently listed model — Ling 3.0 tiny was listed 10 August 2026, Qwen3.5-9B 10 March 2026.

Choose Qwen3.5-9B if…

  • you want provider choice — 6 listed API providers against 0.
  • AA Terminal-Bench 2.1 is your yardstick — 29.2% against 27.7%.
  • AA Humanity's Last Exam is your yardstick — 14.9% against 9.3%.

Ling 3.0 tiny vs Qwen3.5-9B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Ling 3.0 tiny and Qwen3.5-9B
FieldLing 3.0 tinyInclusionAIQwen3.5-9BQwen
ModelCap Index position#95#97
Index score41.741.1
EvidenceMeasuredEstimated
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.10
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.15
Context window— tokens262K tokens
Max output tokens—236K
API providers listed06
Weight accessOpen weightsOpen weights
Input modalitiesTextText, Image, Video
First listed10 August 202610 March 2026
PublisherInclusionAIQwen

Evidence: 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board · publisher-corpus-prior over 182 held-out anchors (30%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 10 rows (70%); exceeds every named peer on 4 of 10 rows; optimism haircut 0.6 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 3.7 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Ling 3.0 tiny vs Qwen3.5-9B

Public benchmark boards where Ling 3.0 tiny or Qwen3.5-9B has a published result
BoardLing 3.0 tinyQwen3.5-9BLeads
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis11.9intelligence-index:v4.3:reasoning-unspecified—Only one result
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis27.7%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Ling 3.0 Tiny":reasoning=true29.2%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3.5 9B":reasoning=trueQwen3.5-9B
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis—86.8%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3.5 9B":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis9.3%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Ling 3.0 Tiny":reasoning=true14.9%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Qwen3.5 9B":reasoning=trueQwen3.5-9B

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Ling 3.0 tiny vs Qwen3.5-9B: common questions

Is Ling 3.0 tiny better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Ling 3.0 tiny ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 9 September 2026: #95 against #97. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Ling 3.0 tiny cheaper than Qwen3.5-9B?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Ling 3.0 tiny or Qwen3.5-9B?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Ling 3.0 tiny or Qwen3.5-9B?

AA Terminal-Bench 2.1: Ling 3.0 tiny 27.7%, Qwen3.5-9B 29.2% — Qwen3.5-9B leads.

Are Ling 3.0 tiny and Qwen3.5-9B open-weight models?

Ling 3.0 tiny: Open weights. Qwen3.5-9B: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Ling 3.0 tiny and Qwen3.5-9B?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Ling 3.0 tiny and 6 for Qwen3.5-9B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Ling 3.0 tiny vs Qwen3.5-9B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 9 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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