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Start with Qwen3.5-9B and GLM 4.5 Air, or choose any two current ranked language models. Compare capability evidence, price, context, provider availability, and weight access without pretending one field decides every use case.

Current public data

Qwen3.5-9B vs GLM 4.5 Air

Live dataset updated 9/9/2026, 9:50:24 PM UTC

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Factual comparison of Qwen3.5-9B and GLM 4.5 Air
Field
ModelCap position#96#94
Index score42.242.8
EvidenceEstimatedpublisher-corpus-prior over 180 held-out anchors (31%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 10 rows (69%); exceeds every named peer on 4 of 10 rows; optimism haircut 0.6 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 3.8 up toward the measured corpusMeasured2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
Input / 1M$0.10$0.13
Output / 1M$0.15$0.85
Pricing statusfreshfresh
Context262K131K
Providers63
Weight accessOpen weightsOpen weights

Decision facts

  • Qwen3.5-9B is #96; GLM 4.5 Air is #94 on the same current language board.
  • Index scores are 42.2 for Qwen3.5-9B and 42.8 for GLM 4.5 Air. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
  • Evidence differs: Qwen3.5-9B is Estimated; GLM 4.5 Air is Measured.
  • Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.15 for Qwen3.5-9B and $0.85 for GLM 4.5 Air. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.27 for Qwen3.5-9B versus $0.69 for GLM 4.5 Air. Qwen3.5-9B costs 59.9% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
  • Published context is 262,144 tokens for Qwen3.5-9B and 131,072 for GLM 4.5 Air.
  • ModelCap currently lists 6 providers for Qwen3.5-9B and 3 for GLM 4.5 Air.

These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.

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