Alibaba Cloud

Qwen 3.5

Alibaba's 397B parameter open-source model. 60% cheaper than competitors, strong multilingual support, and competitive benchmarks. Apache 2.0 licensed for commercial use.

4.6/ 5.0
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128K context
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Pricing

Free
Limited features
API Pricing
Input$1/1M tokens
Output$3/1M tokens

Ratings

Overall
4.6
Coding
4.5
Writing
4.6
Reasoning
4.5
Speed
4.7
Value
5.0

Pros

  • 397B params, competitive with top models
  • 60% cheaper than proprietary alternatives
  • Open source (Apache 2.0)
  • Excellent multilingual support
  • Self-hostable for full control

Cons

  • Behind Claude/GPT on hardest benchmarks
  • Smaller ecosystem than OpenAI/Anthropic

Best For

Budget-conscious teams, open-source deployments, multilingual applications

Quick Info

Provider
Alibaba Cloud
Version
3.5
Released
Feb 2026
Context
128K tokens

Features

Vision/Images
Audio
Video
PDF Processing
Code Generation
AI Agents

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