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Run Qwen3.5-9B on Lium
Alibaba Qwen · Vision and text · 9.7B parameters · 19.3 GB BF16 weights · released 2026-02-27
It needs about 24 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX 3090 (24 GB), from $0.19 per hour, billed per second.
Other GPUs that run it
How to run it
Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B:
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-9BClaude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Qwen3.5-9B need?
About 19.3 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 24 GB with room for activations and KV cache at a short context. Longer contexts and bigger batches need more.
What GPU should I rent to run Qwen3.5-9B?
RTX 3090 (24 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.19 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
For AI agents (CLI install, agent skill, headless signup): llms-full.txt