Qwen3.5 9B locally: the model 'ollama run qwen3.5' actually gives you
Type ollama run qwen3.5 and this is the model you get — the 9B. What it is, how little VRAM it needs, and the cheapest card that runs it well.
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Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor
The short answer
Qwen3.5 9B is the model you get when you type ollama run qwen3.5 — it's the default tag. A 9B dense model with a 256K context, it needs about 6.7 GB at Q4_K_M (computed by our VRAM engine), so it…
9B params, dense, 256K context (extensible), Apache-2.0 — from the model card.
The bare ollama run qwen3.5 pulls this 9B (verified on ollama.com/library).