Qwen Chat

Name: Qwen Chat
Brand: Alibaba (알리바바)

Alibaba (알리바바), China, chat.qwen.ai

Alibaba's free AI chatbot. Qwen models are also popular as open source

Chatbot/Assistant Open Models Coding

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CurrencyUSD KRW EUR

Personal starting priceFreeNo paid plan

Free tierFree

Korean supportGood

Price checked 2026-10-17, source: alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing. Prices and benefits may change. Check the official site before you pay.

Pros

Free
Among the top-performing open models
Includes image and video generation

Cons

Data concerns because it is a Chinese service
Censorship of sensitive topics

These are opinions compiled by Pickx from public sources.

At a glance

Qwen Chat (chat.qwen.ai) is a free AI chatbot made by Alibaba. On the web, desktop and mobile apps you can chat, analyze files, generate images/video, and use agent features. Many Qwen models are released as open weights and are among the most widely used model families in the global open-source AI ecosystem. It suits people who want to try many features for free, and developers who want to build their own service with open models.

Full model list

Model	Type	Features	Where/which plan
Qwen3.8-Max (latest snapshot Qwen3.8-Max-0902)	Text/reasoning/coding/image understanding	Top flagship released August 2026 (about 2.4T parameters) Supports 1,000,000 token input Strong at complex reasoning/agent tasks	Qwen Chat Free API (qwen3.8-max)
Qwen3.7-Plus	Text/reasoning/image understanding/agents	Main model balancing performance and price Agent-type model that understands visual information Supports 1,000,000 token context	Qwen Chat API (qwen3.7-plus) Weights not released
Qwen3.8-Flash	Text (fast response)	Fast, cheap lightweight model For bulk processing/chatbot backends	Qwen Chat API (qwen3.8-flash)
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus	Unified voice/video/image (omni)	Understands text/image/voice/video at once Supports real-time voice chat	Qwen Chat voice/video calls API
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B	Text (open weights)	2.4T total/95B active MoE text model Releases a Max-class model as weights About 4.9TB in size	Open weights (Qwen3.8-Max License)
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Multimodal (open weights)	125B total/6B active MoE Fast, light multimodal model Shown as 180B on Hugging Face FP8 version available	Open weights (Qwen Community License 1.0)
Qwen3.8-27B	Text/image understanding (open weights)	High-performance dense model that can run on a single GPU class Free commercial use	Open weights (Apache 2.0)
Qwen3.6 open models (35B-A3B, 27B)	Text/multimodal	Small and mid-size open models released April 2026 Popular for running locally	Previous models (open weights)
Qwen3.7-Max Qwen3.6-Plus/Max	Text/reasoning	First-half 2026 flagships	Previous models
Qwen3.5 (397B-A17B and others)	Multimodal (open weights)	Native multimodal open model generation released February 2026	Previous models (open weights)
Qwen3 Qwen3-Coder Qwen3-VL QwQ-32B	Text/coding/vision/reasoning	2025 generation Released in many sizes from 0.6B to 235B Still widely used for local use/fine-tuning	Previous models (mostly Apache 2.0)
Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro	Image generation/editing	High-quality image generation model with accurate text rendering (including Korean)	Qwen Chat API
Qwen-Image-2.1 2.1-Turbo	Image generation/editing (open weights)	7B generation model Turbo is fast, making an image in only 8 steps Released October 9, 2026	Open weights (Qwen Research License, separate license for commercial use)
Wan 3.0 Video / Wan2.7-Image-Pro	Video/image generation	Alibaba's video generation model Generates short video from text/images	Qwen Chat video generation API
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR	Speech synthesis/speech recognition	Natural speech synthesis Real-time dictation	API
Qwen3Guard Qwen3 Embedding/Rerank	Safety filter/for search	Harmful content classification Embedding/reranking models for search (RAG)	Open weights API

Note: The list of models you can choose inside Qwen Chat changes often. The list above is based on the official API model list and the models published on Hugging Face.

Plans

Plan	Price	What you can do	Usage limits	Features
Qwen Chat Free	$0	Chat with the latest Qwen models Thinking mode Web search File/image analysis Image/video generation Voice chat	Not disclosed officially	No paid personal subscription
API – qwen3.8-max	Per 1,000,000 tokens: input $2 output $6 (international region)	Call the top model API	Up to 1,000,000 token input 1,000,000 free tokens for new users (90 days, Singapore region)	Pay as you go on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
API – qwen3.7-plus	Input up to 256K: input $0.4/output $1.6 256K to 1M: input $1.2/output $4.8	Same price in thinking/non-thinking mode	Not disclosed officially (pay as you go)	Shown on the official page as a "limited-time 20% off" price
API – qwen3.8-flash	Per 1,000,000 tokens: input $0.15 output $0.47	Call the lightweight model API	Up to 1,000,000 token input 1,000,000 free token trial	Cheapest commercial Qwen model
Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan	Price needs checking (reported at about $7 to $50 per month)	Flat-rate coding plan used in coding tools (Qwen Code and others)	Not disclosed officially	Prices differ by region, so official confirmation is needed
Enterprise	Alibaba Cloud contract	Dedicated Model Studio deployment Self-install of open weights	Not disclosed officially	With open weights you can run it yourself with no license fee

Which plan to choose

Qwen Chat Free: People who want to try the latest large models, even image/video generation, in one place without spending money. However, it is best not to enter sensitive personal information or company materials.
API – qwen3.8-max: Developers who need top performance but want to pay less than for US flagship models.
API – qwen3.7-plus: Teams that want to build work automation or agents that mix long documents/images at a reasonable price.
API – qwen3.8-flash: Services with heavy request volume, such as customer support chatbots and classification/summarization.
Open weights (Qwen3.8-27B and others): Developers who want to run or fine-tune AI on their own PC or an in-house server. Apache 2.0 models can also be used commercially for free.

Notes

Information checked: 2026-10-12
Sources: Qwen Chat, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio model list, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing, Hugging Face Qwen, Qwen official site

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Prices converted at 1 USD = ₩1,329.49 (2026-10-19). Original price shown in brackets. Taxes as listed by each provider.

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