Alibaba (Qwen)
State-of-the-art open-source models competitive with the best closed frontier models.
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About Alibaba (Qwen)
Alibaba's Qwen (通义千问) model family has rapidly become one of the most capable open-source series globally. QwQ-32B is a fully open reasoning model competitive with OpenAI o1-mini, while Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct matches Llama 3.1 405B at a fraction of the size. The Qwen series supports 29 languages and extends to vision, audio, and code via purpose-built variants. Models are available via the Alibaba Cloud API and as open weights on Hugging Face.
Key highlights
QwQ-32B is among the strongest open reasoning models, competitive with o1-mini
Qwen2.5-72B beats Llama 3.1 405B on many benchmarks at 5× smaller size
Open-weight models available under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face
Supports 29 languages with strong bilingual English/Chinese performance
API priced significantly cheaper than comparable Western frontier models
Models
4 models tracked
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QwQ-32B
2025
A fully open reasoning model that applies extended chain-of-thought before answering. Competitive with OpenAI o1-mini on MATH and coding benchmarks — released under Apache 2.0.
- Open-source reasoning model
- Matches o1-mini on MATH
- RL-trained thinking
- Apache 2.0 licence
qwq-32bQwen2.5-72B-Instruct
2024
Dense 72B model with 128K context and support for 29 languages. Outperforms Llama 3.1 405B on several benchmarks at a fraction of the parameter count. Apache 2.0 licence.
- 128K context
- Strong multilingual (29 languages)
- Open Apache 2.0
- Benchmark leader in class
qwen2.5-72b-instructQwen2.5-Max
2025
Alibaba's top commercial model. Delivers frontier-level quality across reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks at highly competitive pricing.
- Flagship commercial quality
- Multilingual excellence
- Complex reasoning
- Cost-efficient API
qwen-maxQwen-VL-Max
2024
Qwen's flagship vision-language model. Handles multi-image inputs, chart analysis, document OCR, and complex visual reasoning tasks.
- State-of-the-art vision-language
- Multi-image understanding
- Document & chart analysis
- OCR
qwen-vl-maxUse Cases
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