# Qwen 3.5 9B

api.venice.ai deprecated the model Qwen 3.5 9B without giving a shutdown date yet.

api.venice.ai has deprecated the Qwen 3.5 9B model without a shutdown date. Calls referencing model Qwen 3.5 9B will fail once it is retired. Check your implementation to confirm whether your requests currently target this identifier.

## What to use instead

Use Qwen 3.6 35B A3B instead.

- API: api.venice.ai (api.venice.ai)
- Model: Qwen 3.5 9B
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: no date given yet
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model Qwen 3.5 9B`
- Source: [Changelog](https://venice.ai/changelog)
- Verified: November 2, 2026, against api.venice.ai's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/api-venice-ai/qwen-3.5-9b/

## api.venice.ai's words

> Qwen 3.5 9B→replaced by [Qwen 3.6 35B A3B](https://basehub.venice.ai/models/qwen3-6-35b-a3b)

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent