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Alibaba (Qwen) models

Alibaba's prolific Qwen team, shipping the widest range of open-weight models of any lab, from tiny to frontier.

Alibaba (Qwen) at a glance

Model pages in the directory: 169
Live on OpenRouter: 42
Price range: $0.03 to $4.00 input, $0.13 to $12.00 output, per million tokens
Usage share: 1.6% of OpenRouter tokens

Listed under 5 provider names in the catalogue: alibaba (38), alibaba-nlp (1), qwen (113), tongyi-zhiwen (1), wanx (1). The list below shows qwen.

The provider

Qwen's signature is breadth and openness. It ships the widest ladder of any lab, from tiny on-device models to frontier-class ones, mostly as open weights, and it is strong on multilingual and coding tasks. The house style is prolific and practical. Whatever size you need, there is a Qwen for it.

Where it fits

Teams that want an open-weight model at a specific size or for a specific job, especially multilingual or coding work, with the option to self-host.

Strengths

The widest ladder of open-weight sizes in the market
Strong multilingual and coding performance
Self-hostable for data control

Watch for

China-based hosted API affects residency for regulated buyers
Sheer number of variants makes selection harder
English docs and support lighter than the US labs

Our take

Qwen is the open-weight swiss army knife. Whatever size or job you need, there is likely a strong Qwen for it, and you can self-host. The breadth is the value, though the same breadth means you spend more time choosing the right variant.

Official provider website ↗

The Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud is the most prolific model shop in the market. It ships the widest ladder of any lab, from tiny on-device models to frontier-class ones, and releases most of them as open weights, which has made Qwen a favourite base for builders who want an open model at a very specific size.

The value is breadth. Whatever scale or job you need, from a multilingual chat model to a dedicated coder, there is likely a strong Qwen for it, and you can self-host to control data residency. The same breadth is the one catch: you spend more time picking the right variant than with a lab that ships two or three models.

The catalogue below is every Qwen model we track, joined live to pricing, context, and benchmark scores.

1,439 alibaba (Qwen) models in this directory. Source-reviewed guides come first.

24 tools on this page

LModelsCoding

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Qwen

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team.

$0.300 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

Best for: Dedicated coding agents on a budget

LModelsReason

Qwen3 Max

Qwen

Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage.

$0.780 / Mtok in262,144 ctx

Best for: Qwen-stack teams that need max quality

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

Qwen

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is an open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts model from Qwen and the open-weight variant of Qwen3.8 Max, with 95 billion active parameters out.

$2.00 / Mtok in1,048,576 ctxopen-weights

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (batch)

Qwen

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is an open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts model from Qwen and the open-weight variant of Qwen3.8 Max, with 95 billion active parameters out.

$2.00 / Mtok in1,010,000 ctx

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.7 Max

Qwen

Qwen3.7-Max is the flagship model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series.

$1.48 / Mtok in1,000,000 ctx

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen

Qwen3.7-Plus is a cost-effective model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series.

$0.320 / Mtok in1,000,000 ctx

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.7 Plus (batch)

Qwen

Qwen3.7-Plus is a cost-effective model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series.

$0.230 / Mtok in262,144 ctx

LModelsVision

Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen

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.

$0.325 / Mtok in1,000,000 ctx

LModelsVision

Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen

Qwen3.6 27B is a dense 27-billion-parameter language model from the Qwen Team at Alibaba, released in April 2026.

$0.320 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen

Qwen3.8 Max is the flagship model in Alibaba's Qwen3.8 series, the general-availability successor to the Qwen3.8 Max Preview.

$2.00 / Mtok in1,000,000 ctx

LModelsVision

Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Qwen

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.

$0.600 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

LModelsVision

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Qwen

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.

$0.260 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

LModelsVision

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token.

$0.100 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

LModelsVision

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Qwen

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.

$0.140 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

LModelsCoding

Qwen3 Coder Next

Qwen

Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model optimized for coding agents and local development workflows.

$0.120 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Qwen

Qwen3.8 Max 0902 is an updated snapshot of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team.

$2.00 / Mtok in1,000,000 ctx

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (batch)

Qwen

Qwen3.8 Max 0902 is an updated snapshot of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team.

$1.15 / Mtok in262,144 ctx

LModelsVision

Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen

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.

$0.170 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

LModelsVision

Qwen3.5-9B (batch)

Qwen

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.

$0.170 / Mtok in262,144 ctx

LModelsContext

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters.

$1.03 / Mtok in262,144 ctx

LModelsVision

Qwen3.5-27B

Qwen

The Qwen3.5 27B native vision-language Dense model incorporates a linear attention mechanism, delivering fast response times while balancing inference speed and performance.

$0.260 / Mtok in262,144 ctxopen-weights

LModelsReason

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

Qwen

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is a high-performance, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks.

$0.450 / Mtok in128,000 ctxopen-weights

LModelsReason

Qwen3 Max Thinking

Qwen

Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning.

$0.780 / Mtok in262,144 ctx

LModelsCoding

Qwen3.8 27B

Qwen

Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen.

$0.150 / Mtok in1,048,575 ctxopen-weights