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Alibaba Qwen

Alibaba Qwen develops the largest open-weight multilingual model family available, including Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B and Qwen 2.5 72B. The Apache 2.0 license enables unrestricted commercial use. Qwen models excel at multilingual reasoning and coding tasks, supporting 29 languages natively.

Why Choose Alibaba Qwen?

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B uses a dense transformer architecture with grouped-query attention and a pre-training corpus of 5.5 trillion tokens including code from 50+ programming languages. Their context extrapolation technique allows 128K context windows through rotary position interpolation. The Qwen 2.5 family introduced an architecture upgrade with multi-query attention that reduces KV-cache overhead by 90% compared to standard multi-head attention. Their code generation is trained on a curated dataset of 10 billion lines of verified code from GitHub and Hugging Face.

Pricing Overview

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B API costs $0.20/$0.60 per million input/output tokens via OpenRouter. A $10 trial credit is available. Self-hosting requires 65GB FP16 VRAM (2x RTX 4090). The Apache 2.0 license makes it freely deployable for commercial use.

Official Model Portfolio (0)

No API models currently hosted for Alibaba Qwen.

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