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Qwen3

Alibaba’s Qwen3 generation — strong multilingual open models spanning chat, reasoning modes, coding, and multimodal variants.

Vision · Tool calling · Thinking · Coding

Last reviewed: 24 July 2026

Overview

Alibaba’s Qwen3 generation — strong multilingual open models spanning chat, reasoning modes, coding, and multimodal variants.

Capabilities

  • Vision: Yes
  • Audio: No
  • Tool calling: Yes
  • Thinking: Yes
  • MCP: No
  • Coding: Yes
  • Structured output: Yes

Technical specifications

Provider
Alibaba
License
Apache-2.0 (varies by variant)
Context window
128K
Parameters
Family (multiple sizes)
Release
2025
Modalities
Text, Image
Vision
Yes
Audio
No
Tool calling
Yes
Thinking
Yes
MCP
No
Open weights
Yes
API
Yes
Pricing (input)
DashScope / self-host
Pricing (output)
DashScope / self-host

Supported modalities

Text · Image

Context window

128K (128,000 tokens)

Pricing

Input: DashScope / self-host
Output: DashScope / self-host

Many sizes available for local and cloud serving.

Availability

API: Yes
Chat UI: Yes
Open weights: Yes

Use cases

  • Multilingual applications
  • Self-hosted coding assistants
  • Open multimodal pipelines
  • Cost-efficient production chat

Strengths

  • Broad size ladder from small to large
  • Strong open ecosystem on Hugging Face
  • Competitive coding and reasoning modes

Limitations

  • Variant quality varies by size
  • Docs/ecosystem split across Alibaba Cloud vs HF

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