Qwen — Qwen is Alibaba's family of open-weight AI models and a free AI chat assistant for developers.
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Qwen at a glance
- Category
- AI Agents
- Best for
- Solo Founder, Startup, Enterprise
- Agent compatibility
- Agent Ready · MCP Native
- Website
- chat.qwen.ai ↗
- X (Twitter)
- @Alibaba_Qwen ↗
- Last updated
- 29 Sept 2026
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Qwen · screen 2About Qwen
Qwen is the family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud, available as the Qwen Chat assistant and through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API. Qwen3 models handle text, code, images and video, support long contexts and a thinking mode, and include variants such as Qwen3-Coder. It is for developers who want strong open-weight models to self-host and for users who want a free chat assistant. Most Qwen models are released under the Apache 2.0 licence on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Qwen AI?
Qwen is a series of large language and multimodal models built by Alibaba Cloud. It powers the Qwen Chat assistant and is widely used as an open-weight alternative to GPT and Llama models.
Is Qwen free to use?
Qwen Chat is free to use at chat.qwen.ai, and many Qwen models are free to download under the Apache 2.0 licence. API access through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio is billed per token.
Qwen vs DeepSeek, which is better?
Both are leading open-weight model families from China. Qwen offers a wider range of sizes and multimodal models, while DeepSeek is known for low-cost reasoning models like R1. Benchmarks vary by task.
Can I run Qwen locally?
Yes. Qwen models are published on Hugging Face and ModelScope and run with tools like Ollama, vLLM and llama.cpp, with small sizes that fit on a laptop and larger ones for GPU servers.
Is Qwen agent ready?
Yes — Qwen is listed as Agent Ready and MCP Native on Maarket.
Who is Qwen best for?
Qwen is listed as a fit for Solo Founder, Startup, Enterprise teams.
What does Qwen do?
Qwen is Alibaba's family of open-weight AI models and a free AI chat assistant for developers.
What are the alternatives to Qwen?
Other AI Agents products on Maarket include 49agents IDE, Aegis, Agent Builder by Airtop, AgentScore (Latitude), Agnost AI, AI Image Cleaner.
How is Qwen ranked on Maarket?
Purely by Karma Points earned from community actions — reviews, recommends, use signals and clicks. There is no pay-to-rank; sponsor placements are always clearly labeled.
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