---
title: "OpenRouter qwen/qwen3.5-9b expire 2026-10-21 | Harbyn"
description: "OpenRouter qwen/qwen3.5-9b expire 2026-10-21 (cancelled)."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-07-qwen-qwen3-5-9b-expires-2026-10-21"
last-updated: 2026-10-07
---

# OpenRouter qwen/qwen3.5-9b expire 2026-10-21

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-07-qwen-qwen3-5-9b-expires-2026-10-21>.

> **Cancelled.** OpenRouter called this change off. It is kept here as history; nothing needs to change in your code for it.

Retirement - OpenRouter. high severity. Cancelled.

The OpenRouter models API lists an expiration date of 2026-10-21 for qwen/qwen3.5-9b. After that date requests to these model ids are expected to fail on OpenRouter. No replacement is listed by the API.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [OpenRouter](https://harbyn.com/vendors/openrouter.md) |
| Product | models |
| Kind | Retirement |
| Severity | high |
| Status | Cancelled |
| Announced | Oct 7, 2026 (undated by the vendor; the day it first appeared) |
| Effective | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 7, 2026 |
| Lead time | 14 days of warning |
| Model IDs | `qwen/qwen3.5-9b` |
| Review | Automated, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models> (spec, fetched 2026-10-07 23:09 UTC, sha256 `4d81e5f4d81ab730a5f1498e9c0bb7dcc9d3f9b28acb6719f9fbe93e36491f7f`)

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