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 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Chat API, Embeddings API, and Models API. Tagged areas include AI, LLM, Inference, Open Source, and Alibaba.

Qwen’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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38.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

AILLMInferenceOpen SourceAlibabaMultimodal

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scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

Composite quality — 38.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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

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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 Chat API

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

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.

Open Collections 1

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

Qwen via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope)

OPEN COLLECTION

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

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 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

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.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/qwen.png
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- Open Source
- Alibaba
- Multimodal
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
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:
  - AI
  - LLM
  - Chat Completions
  - Vision
  - Embeddings
  - Audio
  - Image Generation
  - Video Generation
  - OpenAI Compatible
  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-chat-api
  name: Qwen Chat API
  description: The Chat API from Qwen — 1 operation(s) for chat.
  humanURL: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio
  baseURL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  tags:
  - Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/qwen-chat-api-openapi.yml
- 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
common:
- 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

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