ChatGPT
OpenAIThe best-known general-purpose AI assistant: writing, analysis, code, images and web search in a single interface.
TextCodeImagesWeb search
Freemium · from €23/moView sheet →
Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight model family: every size from mobile to server, Apache licensed, a favorite of the open source community.
Pricing
Freemium
Platforms
Web, API, Mobile
Publisher
Origin
China · 2023
Overview
Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's model family and the most downloaded open-weight line on community hubs. Its strength is range: from tiny models that run on a phone to frontier-class flagships, most under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. The Qwen Chat assistant showcases the models, and the ecosystem (fine-tunes, quantized builds) is unmatched in open source.
Editorial review
Strengths
- Full size range under Apache 2.0
- Most active open source ecosystem
- Strong multilingual performance
Weaknesses
- Hosted assistant stores data in China
- Sprawling lineup can be confusing
Pricing
Qwen Chat
€0
- · Free assistant
API (Model Studio)
usage-based
- · Hosted Qwen models
Self-hosted
€0 (Apache 2.0)
- · From 0.5B to frontier sizes
Prompt examples
Write a 100-word product description for this item [paste], then localize it into French, Spanish, German and Japanese — adapting idioms, not translating word for word.
I want to run a local assistant on a laptop with 16 GB of RAM for code and email drafting. Which Qwen size and quantization should I pick, and why? Give the trade-offs.
News
No news yet — this section will be updated as announcements, releases and test results come in.
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