Qwen 2.5 / Qwen 3

Apache 2.0; 29+ languages; 235B MoE

Qwen is Alibaba's open LLM family under the fully permissive Apache 2.0 license, supporting 29+ languages with particularly strong Chinese and multilingual performance. The 235B MoE variant competes with top closed models. Ideal for multilingual applications and teams that need a license with zero commercial restrictions.

FREE TIER: Apache 2.0; no restrictions
COMPANY: Alibaba Cloud
CATEGORY: Open-Source Models › Large Language Models
OPEN SOURCE: Yes
PRIVACY: Fully permissive
TAGS: llmmultilingual

QUICK START

Download a Qwen model from HuggingFace or run via Ollama ('ollama run qwen2.5') → Use the Apache 2.0 license freely in commercial projects → Fine-tune on your multilingual data if needed

BEST FOR

▸Teams building commercial multilingual apps needing a permissive license.
▸Developers requiring a powerful open-source LLM for fine-tuning & self-hosting.
▸Projects targeting Chinese or diverse global markets with top-tier performance.

NOT FOR

✕Users seeking a simple, managed API service without self-hosting effort.
✕Individuals with limited compute for small, English-only text generation tasks.

◈ TYPICALLY PAIRED WITH

Tools that appear alongside Qwen 2.5 / Qwen 3 in AIArsenal's curated stacks.

Ollama

Run 100+ LLMs locally from the terminal — completely free

CLI Tools

Continue.dev

Open-source AI code assistant — bring your own model (local or cloud)

Developer Tools

Llama 3.x

Best all-around open LLM — 8B to 405B

Open-Source

Stable Diffusion