Qwen Chat
Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.
Full Qwen Chat record →Head to head
Qwen Chat (Alibaba) and Claude (Anthropic) both sit in Writing. Qwen Chat is the cheaper entry point at Open source models available on Hugging Face and ModelScope; API and Model Studio prices not explicitly detailed.. Claude shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (12 vs 11). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Qwen Chat Alibaba | Claude Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Qwen3-2507 | 5.5 |
| Entry cost | Open source models available on Hugging Face and ModelScope; API and Model Studio prices not explicitly detailed. | Free tier · from $17/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Chat with Qwen free | Free free · Pro (Annual Subscription Discount) $17 · Pro (Billed Monthly) $20 · Max $100 · Ultra $200 · Team Standard seat (Billed Monthly) $25 · Team Standard seat (Billed Annually) $20 · Team Premium seat (Billed Monthly) $125 |
| Model stack | Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQ | Claude Fable 5 · Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Haiku 5.5 · Claude Mythos 5 · Claude Mythos 5.1 · Claude Opus 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Opus 5 · Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude Sonnet 5 · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Opus 4.6 · Opus 4.7 · Sonnet 4.5 · Sonnet 4.6 |
| Context window | 256K | 1M |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 11 | 12 |
| Origin | China | Global |
| Capabilities | Web search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understanding | Extended thinking, Agentic research, Computer use, Projects & memory, Artifacts, MCP connectors, Vision, Code execution |
Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.
Full Qwen Chat record →Known for long context, careful reasoning, and artifact-style document editing.
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