Cubbie Conference December 10, 2026 in San Francisco Get tickets →

Qwen (Alibaba) logo

Qwen (Alibaba)Verified

Open-source large language model series from Alibaba Cloud with strong multilingual, code, and math capabilities.

Pricing

From $0.05 / 1M tokens

Founded

2023

Team size

10,001+ employees

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

At a glance

Best for

ML Engineer

Pricing model

Usage-based

Try before you buy

Integrates with

Hugging FaceModelScopeGitHubDiscordQwen Chat+1

About Qwen (Alibaba)

Qwen is Alibaba's family of large language models spanning text, vision, and coding, released as open-weight checkpoints on Hugging Face/ModelScope and also served as a hosted API through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. It targets developers and enterprises that want frontier-quality reasoning at low cost, either self-hosted for free or consumed as pay-per-token cloud inference. Capabilities include long-context chat, multimodal understanding, and code generation across the Qwen-Turbo, Qwen-Plus, and Qwen-Max tiers.

Buyer Fit & Positioning

Procurement & Fit

Structured facts from the vendor to help your security, finance, and procurement reviews move faster.

Trust

Security & compliance

The vendor hasn’t added security or compliance details yet.

Pricing

Commercial model

Pricing model: Usage-based

Free trial: Yes

Free plan: Yes

Contract minimum: Not specified

Procurement

Purchasing & legal

The vendor hasn’t added purchasing & legal details yet.

Fit

Best-fit company size

Company-size fit has not been specified yet.

Implementation & Procurement

Commercial Fit & Ecosystem

Proof, Outcomes & Momentum

Alternatives, Migration & Buyer Objections