Trinity Large Thinking is a powerful open source reasoning model from the team at Arcee AI. It shows strong performance in PinchBench, agentic workloads, and reasoning tasks. Launch video: https://youtu.be/Gc82AXLa0Rg?si=4RLn6WBz33qT--B7...
Model details →Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal foundation model from the Qwen3.5 family, designed to deliver strong reasoning, coding, and visual understanding in an efficient 9B-parameter architecture. It uses a unified vision-language design...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 262K | 262K | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.22 | $0.10 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.85 | $0.15 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | Yes | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking better than Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking and Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B?
Input: $0.22 vs $0.10 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.85 vs $0.15 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking and Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B support?
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking supports up to 262K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking and Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B support tool calling?
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking: yes. Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B: yes.
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