Question 1

Is Qwen 3.5 free to use commercially?

Accepted Answer

Yes. All open-weight Qwen 3.5 models are released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, modification, and redistribution without restrictions.

Question 2

How does Qwen 3.5 compare to GPT-5 mini?

Accepted Answer

Qwen 3.5's medium models match or exceed GPT-5 mini on key benchmarks like SWE-bench Verified (72.4 tie) while offering the advantage of self-hosting and dramatically lower API costs.

Question 3

Can I run Qwen 3.5 on my own hardware?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The 35B-A3B model runs on consumer GPUs with 32GB VRAM using 4-bit quantization and supports context windows over 1 million tokens. Larger models require multi-GPU setups.

Question 4

What makes Qwen 3.5 different from Qwen 3?

Accepted Answer

Qwen 3.5 unifies text and vision into a single model, introduces a hybrid Gated DeltaNet plus Mixture-of-Experts architecture for faster inference, expands language support to 201 languages, and improves agentic reasoning performance with fewer active parameters.

Qwen 3.5: Alibaba's Model Outperforming GPT-5 Mini & Claude Sonnet 4.5

Qwen 3.5: Alibaba's Model Outperforming GPT-5 Mini & Claude Sonnet 4.5

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