Qwen is Alibaba's family of open-weights large language models, including Qwen 2.5 (general purpose), Qwen-VL (multimodal vision-language), and Qwen-Coder (specialized for code). Strong multilingual support across 29 languages and Apache 2.0 licensing make it a top choice for teams needing self-hosted deployments and commercial-friendly weights.
Open weights — freely available models in multiple sizes.
Multilingual — strong performance across many languages.
Specialised variants — dedicated models for code and vision tasks.
API and self-host options — run via the cloud or your own infrastructure.
Building multilingual chat and content applications.
Self-hosting an open model for privacy or cost control.
Fine-tuning a model for a domain-specific assistant.
Developers who want a capable open-weights model family for many languages.
Teams needing strong multilingual support, especially across English and Chinese.
Researchers fine-tuning models for custom tasks.
Open-source models — free to download and self-host.
Also available via Alibaba Cloud's API (billed per use) and free chat.
