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Qwen Chat

Alibaba's AI assistant for chat, coding, images, and agentic tasks.

Category
Assistant
Pricing
FREE
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebiOSAndroid
Models
Single model (proprietary)
Verified
Jun 13, 2026

The consumer assistant built on Alibaba's Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) model family, spanning text chat, coding help, document and image understanding, and image generation. Newer releases add agentic "task" capabilities that complete multi-step workflows and act across Alibaba's ecosystem. Free to use on the web and mobile apps.

Pros & cons

  • Free with generous usage
  • Built on capable in-house Qwen models
  • Multimodal: text, image, document, code
  • Web plus iOS and Android apps
  • Tied to Alibaba's ecosystem and policies
  • Data handling under Chinese jurisdiction
  • Less third-party tooling than US rivals

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