R1 0528 vs Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B leads R1 0528 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 13.3 to 13.1, and Qwen3.5-9B costs 14.5x less per output token ($0.15 vs $2.18 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 9 benchmarks have a result for both.
R1 0528 or Qwen3.5-9B: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick R1 0528 for work measured by Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 9
- R1 0528 only
- 51
- Qwen3.5-9B only
- 6
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B leads, 13.3 against 13.1.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only R1 0528 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1149.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B takes 262K tokens against 164K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.5-9B
R1 0528 $0.0016, Qwen3.5-9B $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- R1 0528 not benchmarked, Qwen3.5-9B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 50.3 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- τ²-Bench Telecom: R1 0528 36.5% against Qwen3.5-9B 86.8%, 50.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- R1 0528 $2.18 against Qwen3.5-9B $0.15 per million output tokens, 14.5x apart.
- Context window
- R1 0528 takes 164K tokens, Qwen3.5-9B 262K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | R1 0528 | Bars | Qwen3.5-9B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 1 | ||
| Math | 1 | 0 | ||
| General | 0 | 2 | ||
| All shared boards | 3 | 6 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 71.4% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 23.5 | Only Qwen3.5-9B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 77.0% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 29.5% | Only Qwen3.5-9B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.9% | 24.2% | Qwen3.5-9B |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 9.2% | Only Qwen3.5-9B measured |
| WeirdML | 41.6% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 804.1 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1427 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1435 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 13.1 | 13.3 | Qwen3.5-9B |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 139.3 | Only Qwen3.5-9B measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 36.5% | 86.8% | Qwen3.5-9B |
| METR time horizons | 53.8% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 35.1% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | 16.4% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 81.3% | 80.6% | R1 0528 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.8% | 14.9% | R1 0528 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 76.3% | 79.0% | Qwen3.5-9B |
| ARC-AGI | 21.2% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.1% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| SimpleBench | 40.8% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1415 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1394 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1422 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 76.0 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 76.0% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 66.4% | 61.7% | R1 0528 |
| MATH level 5 | 96.6% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1400 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1415 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 84.9% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1430 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1445 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1419 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1402 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1149 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1100 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1097 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1182 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1110 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1138 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1038 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 39.6% | 66.7% | Qwen3.5-9B |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 55.7% | 70.0% | Qwen3.5-9B |
| DTBench | Not measured | 71.2% | Only Qwen3.5-9B measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 24.5% | Only Qwen3.5-9B measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 75.0% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 81.9% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1428 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1382 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1405 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1437 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1412 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1442 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1404 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1391 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1360 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1417 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1411 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1423 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1428 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1405 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1391 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1402 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1400 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.5-9B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.5-9B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.5-9B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | DeepSeek R1 0528 | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | May 28, 2025 | March 10, 2026 |
| Context window | 164K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.10 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.18 | $0.15 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is R1 0528 better than Qwen3.5-9B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick R1 0528 for work measured by Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, R1 0528 or Qwen3.5-9B?
R1 0528 costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.18 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5-9B costs $0.10 and $0.15. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, R1 0528 or Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.5-9B, with 262K tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks is the R1 0528 vs Qwen3.5-9B comparison based on?
9 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. R1 0528's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.5-9B's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.