Alibaba / Qwen

open-weights

China · Founded 1999

Qwen's publisher. Best non-English open-weights model family.

Alibaba's DAMO Academy developed the Qwen model family, which has become the dominant open-weights choice for non-English workloads. Qwen models ship in sizes from 0.6B to 235B (MoE), and the flagship models are competitive with Llama 4 on benchmark evaluations while significantly outperforming it on Chinese and other Asian languages.

Main models

Qwen 3
Qwen 2.5
Qwen-VL

Strengths

Multilingual quality
Open weights
Model variety
Chinese-language capability

Pricing

Free self-hosted; inference services $0.20–$2 per million tokens

Models in the almanac

Qwen 3

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