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Alibaba's free web and mobile AI chat assistant, with a separate metered API for developers.
Qwen is Alibaba's AI chat assistant, available free at its own web app and mobile apps with no usage cap on the consumer side. It answers questions, writes and edits text, reads uploaded files, and can generate images inside the chat, switching between Qwen model versions including an 'Auto' mode that picks a model for the request. Developers who want to call the models programmatically use Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio API instead, which is billed per token rather than through a flat plan. Qwen is one of the more widely used open-weight model families, with several sizes released for self-hosting alongside the hosted chat product.
The consumer chat app and mobile apps are free with no usage cap; the developer API is billed per token through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and has no flat monthly plan.
Use tool ↗Qwen is a solid free daily-driver chatbot backed by a large, frequently updated model family, and the same models are available to self-host since several sizes ship open-weight. The chat product's polish trails ChatGPT or Gemini in the English-speaking market, and account creation nudges toward a phone number or Alibaba-linked login.
Watch out: The free developer API tier that used to exist was discontinued, so production API use is billed per token from the first call.
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