# Qwen

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/qwen/  
**Website:** https://qwen.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 29.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.12.1. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 50.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Qwen Agentic Access** — 3 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

- **Qwen Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Qwen Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Qwen Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, Open-Source, Alibaba, Multi-Modal

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/qwen/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.