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Creator of the Qwen open-weight model family.

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Total models
51 (51 active)
Releases tracked
47
Largest context
1M
Flagship model
1M context
Most affordable
$0.0325/1M / 1M input tokens
Top score · Aider Polyglot
40 on Aider Polyglot
Average pricing
$0.23246808510638298/1M input · $1.1145851063829788/1M output
per 1M tokens, across all models
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Alibaba's AI arm

Alibaba's AI work centres on its DAMO Academy research lab and the cloud-services arm Alibaba Cloud, China's largest cloud provider. Alibaba's flagship LLM family is Qwen (通义千问, Tongyi Qianwen).

The Qwen series

Qwen has emerged as one of the most prominent open-weights LLM families in the world:

  • Qwen 1 (2023) — initial release
  • Qwen 2 (Jun 2024) — major architectural overhaul
  • Qwen 2.5 (Sep 2024) — code, math, and long-context variants
  • Qwen 3 (2025) — current flagship including 235B-parameter MoE

Qwen models are released under Apache 2.0 (with some exceptions for the largest sizes) and are widely used across the global open-source ecosystem, particularly in benchmarks and fine-tuning research.

Strategic role

Alibaba has been one of the most aggressive open-weights publishers in China, alongside DeepSeek. Its US$53 billion three-year AI capex commitment (announced Feb 2025) signals continued prioritisation of generative AI over its traditional commerce business.

Latest activity

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  1. 0

    Qwen2.5 72B Instruct released

    Qwen2.5 72B Instruct discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
  2. 0

    Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct released

    Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
  3. 0

    Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct released

    Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  4. 0

    Qwen: Qwen-Max released

    Qwen: Qwen-Max discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen: Qwen-Max
  5. 0

    Qwen: Qwen-Plus released

    Qwen: Qwen-Plus discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen: Qwen-Plus
  6. 0

    Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct released

    Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
  7. 0

    Qwen: Qwen-Turbo released

    Qwen: Qwen-Turbo discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen: Qwen-Turbo
  8. 0

    Qwen: Qwen VL Max released

    Qwen: Qwen VL Max discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen: Qwen VL Max
  9. 0

    Qwen: Qwen VL Plus released

    Qwen: Qwen VL Plus discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen: Qwen VL Plus
  10. 0

    Qwen: QwQ 32B released

    Qwen: QwQ 32B discovered via OpenRouter. Provider: Alibaba.

    Qwen: QwQ 32B

Releases timeline

Showing 12 most recent
  1. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

    Qwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance inference. Compared to the 3.5 series, it delivers...

  2. Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

    Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal foundation model from the Qwen3.5 family, designed to deliver strong reasoning, coding, and visual understanding in an efficient 9B-parameter architecture. It uses a unified vision-language design...

  3. Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

    The Qwen3.5 Series 35B-A3B is a native vision-language model designed with a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms and a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. Its overall...

  4. Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

    The Qwen3.5 27B native vision-language Dense model incorporates a linear attention mechanism, delivering fast response times while balancing inference speed and performance. Its overall capabilities are comparable to those of...

  5. Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

    The Qwen3.5 122B-A10B native vision-language model is built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. In terms of...

  6. Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash

    The Qwen3.5 native vision-language Flash models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. Compared to the...

  7. Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15

    The Qwen3.5 native vision-language series Plus models are built on a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms with sparse mixture-of-experts models, achieving higher inference efficiency. In a variety of...

  8. Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B

    The Qwen3.5 series 397B-A17B native vision-language model is built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. It delivers...

  9. Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking

    Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it...

  10. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next

    Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model optimized for coding agents and local development workflows. It uses a sparse MoE design with 80B total parameters and only 3B activated per...

  11. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

    Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct is a large-scale multimodal vision-language model designed for high-precision understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. With 32 billion parameters, it combines deep visual perception with advanced text...

  12. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

    Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences. It integrates enhanced multimodal alignment and...

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