Qwen

Qwen is Alibaba's large language model family, including Qwen3-Max, Qwen3.5-Plus, Qwen3.5-Flash, Qwen3-VL (vision), Qwen-Coder, Qwen-Audio, and Qwen open-source weights. APIs are exposed via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope) with per-token pricing across multiple regions. The qwen.ai consumer site fronts the chat product.

Qwen publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Embeddings API, Models API, Chat Completions API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, Open Source, and Alibaba.

The Qwen catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Qwen’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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28.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Artificial Intelligence LLM Inference Open Source Alibaba Multi-Modal Foundation Models

What this lets a business do 1

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AI Model Services

AE-110

Embeddings

POST /embeddings

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 28.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 3.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
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Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

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Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 25.5 — up to +14.9 composite points Ask about this →
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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Speech and Voice AI	covered	51.7	-	1

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

The OpenAI Interface reaches extended

declared — publishes a spec that declares them

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

DashScope (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio) API

Native Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API serving the Qwen model family. Provides chat completions, multimodal vision, embeddings, audio (TTS/ASR), image generation, video generatio...

Qwen Embeddings API

The Embeddings API from Qwen — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.

Qwen Models API

The Models API from Qwen — 1 operation(s) for models.

Qwen Chat Completions API

The Chat Completions API from Qwen — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Qwen via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope) Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Qwen via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope) Chat Embeddings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Qwen via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope) Chat Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Qwen via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope)

OPEN COLLECTION

Qwen API pricing

Not yet checked against Qwen's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
DashScope Pay As You Go (International) usage	—
DashScope Pay As You Go (China Mainland) usage	—
Self-Hosted (Open Weights) free	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Default RPM: see workspace console requests per minute
Default TPM: see workspace console tokens per minute
Concurrent Tasks: see workspace console concurrent tasks

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Qwen's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Qwen Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Qwen Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Qwen Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Qwen API Rules

33 rules · 31 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Qwen Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Qwen Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Qwen Agentic Access

3 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: qwen
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qwen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Qwen
kind: company
description: Qwen is Alibaba's large language model family, including Qwen3-Max, Qwen3.5-Plus, Qwen3.5-Flash, Qwen3-VL (vision),
  Qwen-Coder, Qwen-Audio, and Qwen open-source weights. APIs are exposed via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope) with per-token
  pricing across multiple regions. The qwen.ai consumer site fronts the chat product.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/qwen.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Inference
- Open Source
- Alibaba
- Multi-Modal
- Foundation Models
tags_raw:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- Open Source
- Alibaba
- Multimodal
- Open-Source
- Foundation Models
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: qwen:dashscope
  name: DashScope (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio) API
  description: Native Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API serving the Qwen model family. Provides chat completions, multimodal
    vision, embeddings, audio (TTS/ASR), image generation, video generation, function calling, and tool use. Both DashScope-native
    and OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Multiple regional base URLs (Singapore, US-Virginia, HK, Frankfurt, Beijing).
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio
  baseURL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - LLM
  - Chat Completions
  - Vision
  - Embeddings
  - Audio
  - Image Generation
  - Video Generation
  - OpenAI-Compatible
  tags_raw:
  - AI
  - LLM
  - Chat Completions
  - Vision
  - Embeddings
  - Audio
  - Image Generation
  - Video Generation
  - OpenAI Compatible
  - Image-Generation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/modelstudio
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/QwenLM
  - type: ConsumerWebsite
    url: https://qwen.ai/
  - type: SingaporeBaseURL
    url: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  - type: USBaseURL
    url: https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  - type: HongKongBaseURL
    url: https://cn-hongkong.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  - type: BeijingBaseURL
    url: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
- aid: qwen:qwen-embeddings-api
  name: Qwen Embeddings API
  description: The Embeddings API from Qwen — 1 operation(s) for embeddings.
  humanURL: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio
  baseURL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/qwen-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: qwen:qwen-models-api
  name: Qwen Models API
  description: The Models API from Qwen — 1 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio
  baseURL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/qwen-models-api-openapi.yml
- aid: qwen:qwen-chat-completions-api
  name: Qwen Chat Completions API
  description: The Chat Completions API from Qwen — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.
  humanURL: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio
  baseURL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/qwen-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/qwen-capability-edges.yml
  name: Qwen Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/qwen-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/qwen-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/qwen-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qwen
- type: Website
  url: https://qwen.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/QwenLM
- type: Plans
  url: plans/qwen-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/qwen-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/qwen-finops.yml
- url: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/index.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Qwen API — frequently asked questions

Does Qwen have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Qwen, including DashScope (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio) API, Qwen Embeddings API and Qwen Models API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Qwen API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Qwen, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Qwen API?

Qwen uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Qwen Authentication.

How much does the Qwen API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Qwen, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Qwen API ready for AI agents?

Qwen has a Kin Score of 28.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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