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Jamba2 MinivsQwen3.5 9B

Jamba2 Mini and Qwen3.5 9B split their 2 shared benchmarks evenly. Qwen3.5 9B has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
1 – 1
even split
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3.5 9B
262K tokens
Providers
2 providers
AI21 Labs · Qwen
Jamba2 Mini
AI21 Labs · released 2026-01-08
text
Context
256K
Max out
4K
Input /1M
$0.2 ↗
Output /1M
$0.4 ↗
Cached /1M
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Scores
4 · 0 core
Qwen3.5 9B
Qwen · released 2026-03-02
textvisionvideo
Context
262K
Max out
—
Input /1M
—
Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
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Scores
18 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkJamba2 MiniQwen3.5 9BΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
IFBench38% ↗64.5% ↗-26.5 ptQwen3.5 9B
IFEval97% ↗91.5% ↗+5.5 ptJamba2 Mini
Only Jamba2 Mini reports · 2
Collie33% ↗not reported——
FACTS57% ↗not reported——
Only Qwen3.5 9B reports · 15
GPQA Diamondnot reported81.7% ↗——
MMLU-Pronot reported82.5% ↗——
BFCL-V4not reported66.1% ↗——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)not reported12% ↗epoch run——
HMMT Feb 25not reported83.2% ↗——
LiveCodeBench v6not reported65.6% ↗——
LongBench v2not reported55.2% ↗——
MMLU-Reduxnot reported91.1% ↗——
MMMLUnot reported81.2% ↗——
MMMUnot reported78.4% ↗——
MMMU-Pronot reported70.1% ↗——
OSWorld-Verifiednot reported41.8% ↗——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)not reported61.7% ↗epoch run——
SuperGPQAnot reported58.2% ↗——
TAU2-Benchnot reported79.1% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Jamba2 Mini minus Qwen3.5 9B in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecJamba2 MiniQwen3.5 9BEdge
Context window256K tokens262K tokensQwen3.5 9B
Max output4K tokens——
Input price / 1M$0.2 ↗——
Output price / 1M$0.4 ↗——
Cached input / 1M———
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$0.6——
Modalitiestexttext · vision · videoQwen3.5 9B
Released2026-01-082026-03-02—
Cited benchmark scores418—
Reliability

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