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Qwen Chat vs Claude

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.

AttributeQwen Chat

Alibaba

Claude

Anthropic

SegmentWritingWriting
VersionQwen3-25075.5
Entry costOpen source models available on Hugging Face and ModelScope; API and Model Studio prices not explicitly detailed.Free tier · from $17/mo
Pricing tiersChat with Qwen freeFree 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 stackQwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQClaude 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 window256K1M
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d1112
OriginChinaGlobal
CapabilitiesWeb search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understandingExtended thinking, Agentic research, Computer use, Projects & memory, Artifacts, MCP connectors, Vision, Code execution

Qwen Chat

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

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