Qwen

Alibaba's model family, open weights plus a chat product.

Free tier Free chat; API billed per token; open weights free to self-host Verified 2026-11-10 assistantsopen-weightalibabamultilingual

Use it for

Teams that want a strong open-weight model they can self-host or fine-tune

Skip it if

Anyone needing a polished Western enterprise workflow out of the box

A model family with open weights and a hosted chat, strong in Chinese and competitive in English, with code and vision variants. The practical reason to consider it is deployment choice: the same model can run in the browser or inside your own infrastructure, which matters when data location or cost per token is the constraint.

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