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Qwen models, coding and multimodal ecosystem

A source-backed map of Qwen3.8 and Qwen3.7 models, open weights, Qwen Cloud APIs, Qwen Code, Token Plan and multimodal products.

Short answer

Where should you start?

Start with Qwen3.8-Max for the hosted flagship, Qwen3.8-27B for an Apache-2.0 multimodal deployment, Qwen Code for terminal agent work, and Qwen Cloud when one international API surface must cover text, image, video, audio, embeddings and reranking.

Ownership boundary

Qwen models, Qwen Studio, Qwen Code and Qwen Cloud are Alibaba/Qwen surfaces, but their access, licenses and billing are not interchangeable. QwenPaw is an AgentScope project that uses Qwen rather than an Alibaba-owned Qwen product.

Tracked products

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen

4.6

Qwen Cloud makes Qwen available for global evaluation through an English marketplace, docs, pricing and compatible API paths.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Qwen3.7, Qwen Cloud APIs, coding agents and multimodal Chinese model coverage from an English international platform.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availablePartial English UITrustedPublic APIFreemium

Payment: Free web access / Qwen Cloud billing
Checked: Aug 17
Sources: High confidence
From: Free tier, pay-as-you-go API usage and Token Plan subscriptions vary by model

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen Code

4.2

Qwen Code is a distinct AI coding product and should be tracked separately from Qwen Cloud models or token plans.

Best fit · Developers who want a terminal coding agent for Qwen models and prefer open-source tooling with editor integrations.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availableFull English UITrustedPublic APIFree

Payment: Qwen OAuth / OpenAI-compatible API
Checked: Aug 4
Sources: High confidence
From: Open-source CLI; model/provider costs depend on the chosen API or Qwen OAuth path

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen Cloud Token Plan

4.0

Token Plan is a distinct commercial route for Qwen Cloud and affects how overseas developers actually consume the models.

Best fit · Developers who want a subscription-style Qwen Cloud route for coding tools and compatible agents.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: sources

Globally availableFull English UIPartial evidencePublic APIPaid

Payment: Token Plan subscription / Qwen Cloud billing
Checked: Aug 4
Sources: Medium confidence
From: Standard $30/seat/month; Pro $100/seat/month; Max $200/seat/month

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen-Image / Wan Image

4.2

Qwen image models are visible in the international marketplace and deserve a separate image-category entry.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese image-generation APIs with English docs and Qwen Cloud billing.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availableFull English UITrustedPublic APIFreemium

Payment: Qwen Cloud billing / Token Plan where supported
Checked: Aug 4
Sources: High confidence
From: Free tier and pay-as-you-go image API billing vary by model

Alibaba Cloud

Wan / HappyHorse Video

4.1

Qwen Cloud now exposes video generation in its English marketplace and docs, so Qwen should not be represented only as an LLM.

Best fit · Developers who want Qwen Cloud API access to Chinese video generation models.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availableFull English UITrustedPublic APIFreemium

Payment: Qwen Cloud billing / Pay-as-you-go API billing
Checked: Aug 4
Sources: High confidence
From: HappyHorse-1.1-T2V promotional pricing: $0.084/second at 720P and $0.108/second at 1080P

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen Audio / CosyVoice

4.2

Qwen Cloud has enough official audio evidence to warrant a separate audio-category profile.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese speech synthesis, voice cloning, ASR and realtime speech APIs through an English platform.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availableFull English UITrustedPublic APIFreemium

Payment: Qwen Cloud billing / Token Plan where supported
Checked: Aug 4
Sources: High confidence
From: Free tier and pay-as-you-go speech API billing vary by model

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen Embedding / Rerank

4.0

Qwen Cloud includes retrieval infrastructure models, so Qwen coverage should include more than chat and generation.

Best fit · Teams building RAG, semantic search or ranking pipelines around Chinese and multilingual content.

Coverage · 96/100 · backfill: sources

Globally availableFull English UIPartial evidencePublic APIFreemium

Payment: Qwen Cloud billing / Pay-as-you-go API billing
Checked: Aug 4
Sources: Medium confidence
From: Pay-as-you-go retrieval API billing varies by model

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen-AgentWorld

4.1

Qwen-AgentWorld is tracked separately from Qwen Code because its public surface is a language world model plus AgentWorldBench, not a terminal coding product.

Best fit · Researchers and agent builders who need a simulator or benchmark for tool, terminal, SWE, Android, web and OS agent environments.

Coverage · 100/100

Globally availableFull English UITrustedPublic APIFree

Payment: Hugging Face download / ModelScope download
Checked: Aug 4
Sources: High confidence
From: Apache-2.0 open weights and benchmark; self-hosted inference infrastructure required

AgentScope AI

QwenPaw

3.8

QwenPaw belongs in Productivity because it is a worker runtime for collaborative agent orchestration, not a direct model API or a full coding IDE.

Best fit · Teams that want a browser-friendly worker runtime inside a transparent multi-agent room rather than a monolithic assistant.

Coverage · 100/100 · backfill: sources

Globally availableFull English UIPartial evidenceLimited APIFree

Payment: Self-hosted open source / HiClaw deployment
Checked: Aug 4
Sources: Medium confidence
From: Apache-2.0 open-source runtime; self-hosted as part of HiClaw or comparable multi-agent stacks

Current model records

Qwen3.8 Max

Large MoE flagship for coding, professional work, multimodal understanding and long-horizon agents.

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

Qwen's first open Max-class text model, a sparse 2.4T-parameter MoE with 95B active parameters for generation, coding and agent work.

Qwen3.8 27B

Apache-2.0 dense 27B multimodal Qwen model for text, image and video understanding with reasoning and tool use.

Qwen3.7 Max

Qwen frontier model tuned for agent frameworks, coding assistants and long tasks.

Qwen3.7 Plus

Multimodal Qwen workhorse for long-context agents, visual inputs and coding.

Qwen3 Coder Plus

Hosted Qwen coding model for software agents, repository edits and long-context code work.

Choose hosted or open Qwen

Separate hosted model IDs from downloadable weights, then compare context, modalities, license and infrastructure on the same workload.

Qwen3.8-Max

The hosted flagship for long-horizon coding, professional work and native visual understanding.

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

The open Max-class text model with a custom license and substantial serving requirements.

Qwen3.8 27B

The Apache-2.0 dense multimodal option for text, image and video input.

Choose the product surface

Qwen Studio, Cloud APIs, Token Plan, Qwen Code and self-hosting solve different procurement and workflow problems.

Qwen Cloud API

International model marketplace and compatible APIs across language and multimodal models.

Qwen Code

Open-source terminal agent with interactive, headless, IDE and SDK paths.

Qwen Cloud Token Plan

Subscription access for compatible coding tools; quotas and API billing remain separate decisions.

Implementation guide

Use the decision guide to select a model, access path and coding or multimodal workflow without mixing cloud and open-weight terms.

Qwen ecosystem selection guide

Hosted versus open models, Qwen Code versus Token Plan, multimodal APIs, licensing and deployment checks.

Qwen research index

Follow official release, open-source and research work across language, coding, vision, speech and agents.

Primary sources

Qwen model marketplace

Current hosted models and multimodal API catalog.

Terminal agent, supported protocols, IDE integrations and SDK.

Official Qwen release and research index.

Qwen Cloud Token Plan

Subscription entry and supported coding-tool path.

Last checked: 2026-08-25