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 Artificial Intelligence, 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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32.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

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Artificial Intelligence LLM Inference Open-Source Alibaba Multi-Modal

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 32.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.0 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 18

Access Clarity 7.1 / 18

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · 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

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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 5

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

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

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.
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
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  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
tags_raw:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- Open Source
- Alibaba
- Multimodal
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
  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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