Qwen

Alibaba's open-weight model family

🧠 LLMs & APIs open source / open weights

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Wide range of open-weight LLMs, coder and vision models, plus an API via Alibaba Cloud.

You want strong open weights in many sizes.

You need a US-hosted vendor.

Score breakdown

Job fit20/30

Ease / time-to-first-result11/15

Value14/15

Momentum13/15

Openness & portability10/10

Trust & maturity7/10

Builder/gamer bonus4/5

Initial editorial estimate from public info; not yet hands-on tested. How we score →

Pricing: Open weights free; API pay-per-token
Unverified. Unverified: editorial summary. We couldn't confirm this on an official pricing page (JS-rendered, no public pricing, or usage-based) as of Oct 18, 2026.
Free tier: Yes (unverified)
Platforms: API · Self-host
Open source: Yes
Official URL: https://qwen.ai
URL verified: Oct 18, 2026 (curl HTTP GET)
Last reviewed: Oct 18, 2026 by agent
Sources: https://qwen.ai