Alternatives

Qwen alternatives

Qwen is chat, code, and generate images with Alibaba Cloud’s open Qwen models from the official studio. It is a poor fit if you need a team plan, audit logs, or a phone number to call. Here are 6 tools on Toolora that do a similar job, 6 of them free or with a free tier, and what each one does differently.

Qwen profileFree chat; API and cloud usage billed by Alibaba Cloud
  1. 01

    Kimi

    Free tierToolora score88

    Chat, code, and agent tasks with Moonshot’s Kimi models

    Instead of Qwen: Also covers llm and chat.

    Free + paid plans

  2. 02

    Poe

    Free tierToolora score88

    Chat with many frontier models in one place

    Instead of Qwen: Also covers llm and chat.

    Free + Subscriber

  3. 03

    DeepSeek

    Free tierToolora score91

    Free AI chat for writing, code, and reasoning

    Instead of Qwen: Also covers llm and chat.

    Free + paid API

  4. 04

    Mistral AI

    FreeToolora score90

    European frontier models, chat, and APIs

    Instead of Qwen: Also covers llm and chat.

    Free chat + paid API and team plans

  5. 05

    Groq

    FreeToolora score88

    Fast inference cloud for open models

    Instead of Qwen: Also covers llm.

    Free developer tier + paid inference

  6. 06

    AI21

    FreeToolora score86

    Enterprise language models and AI systems you can build on from the official AI21 site

    Instead of Qwen: Also covers llm.

    Free to try; paid API and enterprise plans listed

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