Qwen (Alibaba)

Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0

What Qwen (Alibaba) does

  • Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0
  • Qwen3.6 mid-size models suit agentic coding on one high-memory machine
  • Small Qwen3.5 sizes run on phones and laptops
  • Free weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope

Qwen (Alibaba) — straight answers

What is Qwen (Alibaba)?

Qwen (Alibaba) is listed under Notable Open Models, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at qwen.ai.

Is Qwen (Alibaba) free?

Qwen (Alibaba) is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 396 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use Qwen (Alibaba) in a browser, or is there an app?

Qwen (Alibaba) works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, iOS, Android, an API and self-hosting. You can sign in with a Google account.

What can Qwen (Alibaba) do?

Qwen (Alibaba) does 4 things the catalog singles out: Open qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter moe, apache 2.0; qwen3.6 mid-size models suit agentic coding on one high-memory machine; small qwen3.5 sizes run on phones and laptops; free weights on hugging face and modelscope.

What is the best free alternative to Qwen (Alibaba)?

DeepSeek Models is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Notable Open Models sub-category and is free. ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu), Falcon (TII) and Hunyuan (Tencent) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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