AI assistant and model family developed by Alibaba Cloud for enterprises and developers.
Qwen is an AI assistant and large language model family developed by Alibaba Cloud, offering chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, and tool utilization through an OpenAI-compatible API. It serves enterprise customers and developers building AI-powered applications and services across multiple industries and geographies.
The model family spans multiple architectures and parameter scales to address diverse deployment requirements from edge devices to cloud infrastructure. Qwen operates under Alibaba Group Holding Limited and distributes its weights under open-source licenses alongside commercial API access through Qwen Studio, which provides a unified interface for model experimentation, deployment, and production scaling.
| Attribute | Qwen | DeepSeek-V4 | Frontier Open-Weight Language Models | General Intuition Foundation Models | Inkling | Mellum | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Founded | 1999 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2025 | 2000 | |
| Sells To | Consumers, Enterprise, Enterprises, Small Business | Enterprises | B2B, Enterprise, Government | — | — | Developers | |
| Pricing Model | Advertising, Subscription, Transactional | Subscription | B2B | — | — | Subscription | |
| Ownership | Public | Private | Private | — | — | Private |
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Founded 1999
Sells To Consumers, Enterprise, Enterprises, Small Business
Pricing Model Advertising, Subscription, Transactional
Ownership Public
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Founded 2023
Sells To Enterprises
Pricing Model Subscription
Ownership Private
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Founded 2024
Sells To B2B, Enterprise, Government
Pricing Model B2B
Ownership Private
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Founded 2025
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
Ownership —
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Founded 2025
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
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