Budget NiMH charger with capacity/refresh

Not likely.
9000 is considered by many to be the best NiMh charger out there, the most versatile and reliable.

However, that doesnt mean that SHAN or IQ are worse, it all depends on what you want your charger to do for you and how quickly you want your batteries to be charged and what capacity batteries do you intend to charge.

I for one am still thinking about getting either SH168 or SPX936 from FT (but they dont have valid coupons for all the things I want from them so Im not ordering anything from FT atm), SPX seems to have lesser build quality than SH168, at least judging by google-translated Chinese forum threads.
Perhaps IQ 328 or its clones would be on top of the two I mentioned above, however its considerably more expensive so Im not sure about buying it+SHAN aka Angeleyes has received lots of positive feedback from fellow members through out past years.

EDIT:

I asked similar question regarding good, yet cheap NiMh charger a while ago , take a look at it, lots of info on 2 pages.