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Claude vs Qwen Chat

Claude (Anthropic) and Qwen Chat (Alibaba) both sit in Writing. Qwen Chat is the cheaper entry point at Free to chat on official website. Qwen Chat shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeClaude

Anthropic

Qwen Chat

Alibaba

SegmentWritingWriting
VersionClaude 5.1Qwen3-2507
Entry costFree tier · from $17/moFree to chat on official website
Pricing tiersFree free · Pro (Annual) $17 · Pro (Monthly) $20 · Max (From) $100 · Team (Annual billing per seat) $20 · Team (Monthly billing per seat) $25Free free
Model stackClaude Fable 5 · Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Mythos 5 · Claude Mythos 5.1 · Claude Opus 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Opus 5 · Claude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQ
Context window200000256K
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d010
OriginGlobalChina
CapabilitiesExtended thinking, Agentic research, Computer use, Projects & memory, Artifacts, MCP connectors, Vision, Code executionWeb search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understanding

Qwen Chat

Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.

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