Qwen: Qwen VL Max

The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks. This series inherits the exceptional multilingual capabilities, long-text understanding, and reasoning skills of its foundational model. The Qwen3 Embedding series represents significant advancements in multiple text embedding and ranking tasks, including text retrieval, code retrieval, text classification, text clustering, and bitext mining.

The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks. This series inherits the exceptional multilingual capabilities, long-text understanding, and reasoning skills of its foundational model. The Qwen3 Embedding series represents significant advancements in multiple text embedding and ranking tasks, including text retrieval, code retrieval, text classification, text clustering, and bitext mining.

The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks. This series inherits the exceptional multilingual capabilities, long-text understanding, and reasoning skills of its foundational model. The Qwen3 Embedding series represents significant advancements in multiple text embedding and ranking tasks, including text retrieval, code retrieval, text classification, text clustering, and bitext mining.

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct is a large-scale multimodal vision-language model designed for high-precision understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. With 32 billion parameters, it combines deep visual perception with advanced text comprehension, enabling fine-grained spatial reasoning, document and scene analysis, and long-horizon video understanding.Robust OCR in 32 languages, and enhanced multimodal fusion through Interleaved-MRoPE and DeepStack architectures. Optimized for agentic interaction and visual tool use, Qwen3-VL-32B delivers state-of-the-art performance for complex real-world multimodal tasks.

Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences. It integrates enhanced multimodal alignment and long-context processing (native 256K, expandable to 1M tokens) for tasks such as scientific visual analysis, causal inference, and mathematical reasoning over image or video inputs.

Compared to the Instruct edition, the Thinking version introduces deeper visual-language fusion and deliberate reasoning pathways that improve performance on long-chain logic tasks, STEM problem-solving, and multi-step video understanding. It achieves stronger temporal grounding via Interleaved-MRoPE and timestamp-aware embeddings, while maintaining robust OCR, multilingual comprehension, and text generation on par with large text-only LLMs.

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-horizon temporal reasoning, DeepStack for fine-grained visual-text alignment, and text-timestamp alignment for precise event localization.

The model supports a native 256K-token context window, extensible to 1M tokens, and handles both static and dynamic media inputs for tasks like document parsing, visual question answering, spatial reasoning, and GUI control. It achieves text understanding comparable to leading LLMs while expanding OCR coverage to 32 languages and enhancing robustness under varied visual conditions.

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Thinking variant enhances reasoning in STEM, math, and complex tasks. It excels in perception of real-world/synthetic categories, 2D/3D spatial grounding, and long-form visual comprehension, achieving competitive multimodal benchmark results. For agentic use, it handles multi-image multi-turn instructions, video timeline alignments, GUI automation, and visual coding from sketches to debugged UI. Text performance matches flagship Qwen3 models, suiting document AI, OCR, UI assistance, spatial tasks, and agent research.

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks. It excels in perception of real-world/synthetic categories, 2D/3D spatial grounding, and long-form visual comprehension, achieving competitive multimodal benchmark results. For agentic use, it handles multi-image multi-turn instructions, video timeline alignments, GUI automation, and visual coding from sketches to debugged UI. Text performance matches flagship Qwen3 models, suiting document AI, OCR, UI assistance, spatial tasks, and agent research.

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Thinking model is optimized for multimodal reasoning in STEM and math. The series emphasizes robust perception (recognition of diverse real-world and synthetic categories), spatial understanding (2D/3D grounding), and long-form visual comprehension, with competitive results on public multimodal benchmarks for both perception and reasoning.

Beyond analysis, Qwen3-VL supports agentic interaction and tool use: it can follow complex instructions over multi-image, multi-turn dialogues; align text to video timelines for precise temporal queries; and operate GUI elements for automation tasks. The models also enable visual coding workflows, turning sketches or mockups into code and assisting with UI debugging, while maintaining strong text-only performance comparable to the flagship Qwen3 language models. This makes Qwen3-VL suitable for production scenarios spanning document AI, multilingual OCR, software/UI assistance, spatial/embodied tasks, and research on vision-language agents.

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Instruct model targets general vision-language use (VQA, document parsing, chart/table extraction, multilingual OCR). The series emphasizes robust perception (recognition of diverse real-world and synthetic categories), spatial understanding (2D/3D grounding), and long-form visual comprehension, with competitive results on public multimodal benchmarks for both perception and reasoning.

Beyond analysis, Qwen3-VL supports agentic interaction and tool use: it can follow complex instructions over multi-image, multi-turn dialogues; align text to video timelines for precise temporal queries; and operate GUI elements for automation tasks. The models also enable visual coding workflows—turning sketches or mockups into code and assisting with UI debugging—while maintaining strong text-only performance comparable to the flagship Qwen3 language models. This makes Qwen3-VL suitable for production scenarios spanning document AI, multilingual OCR, software/UI assistance, spatial/embodied tasks, and research on vision-language agents.

Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version. It delivers higher accuracy in math, coding, logic, and science tasks, follows complex instructions in Chinese and English more reliably, reduces hallucinations, and produces higher-quality responses for open-ended Q&A, writing, and conversation. The model supports over 100 languages with stronger translation and commonsense reasoning, and is optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool calling, though it does not include a dedicated “thinking” mode.

Qwen3 Coder Plus is Alibaba's proprietary version of the Open Source Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and environment interaction, combining coding proficiency with versatile general-purpose abilities.

Qwen3 Coder Flash is Alibaba's fast and cost efficient version of their proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and environment interaction, combining coding proficiency with versatile general-purpose abilities.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that outputs structured “thinking” traces by default. It’s designed for hard multi-step problems; math proofs, code synthesis/debugging, logic, and agentic planning, and reports strong results across knowledge, reasoning, coding, alignment, and multilingual evaluations. Compared with prior Qwen3 variants, it emphasizes stability under long chains of thought and efficient scaling during inference, and it is tuned to follow complex instructions while reducing repetitive or off-task behavior.

The model is suitable for agent frameworks and tool use (function calling), retrieval-heavy workflows, and standardized benchmarking where step-by-step solutions are required. It supports long, detailed completions and leverages throughput-oriented techniques (e.g., multi-token prediction) for faster generation. Note that it operates in thinking-only mode.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned chat model in the Qwen3-Next series optimized for fast, stable responses without “thinking” traces. It targets complex tasks across reasoning, code generation, knowledge QA, and multilingual use, while remaining robust on alignment and formatting. Compared with prior Qwen3 instruct variants, it focuses on higher throughput and stability on ultra-long inputs and multi-turn dialogues, making it well-suited for RAG, tool use, and agentic workflows that require consistent final answers rather than visible chain-of-thought.

The model employs scaling-efficient training and decoding to improve parameter efficiency and inference speed, and has been validated on a broad set of public benchmarks where it reaches or approaches larger Qwen3 systems in several categories while outperforming earlier mid-sized baselines. It is best used as a general assistant, code helper, and long-context task solver in production settings where deterministic, instruction-following outputs are preferred.

Qwen Plus 0728, based on the Qwen3 foundation model, is a 1 million context hybrid reasoning model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 is a 30B parameter Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model optimized for complex tasks requiring extended multi-step thinking. The model is designed specifically for “thinking mode,” where internal reasoning traces are separated from final answers.

Compared to earlier Qwen3-30B releases, this version improves performance across logical reasoning, mathematics, science, coding, and multilingual benchmarks. It also demonstrates stronger instruction following, tool use, and alignment with human preferences. With higher reasoning efficiency and extended output budgets, it is best suited for advanced research, competitive problem solving, and agentic applications requiring structured long-context reasoning.

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 128 experts (8 active per forward pass), designed for advanced code generation, repository-scale understanding, and agentic tool use. Built on the Qwen3 architecture, it supports a native context length of 256K tokens (extendable to 1M with Yarn) and performs strongly in tasks involving function calls, browser use, and structured code completion.

This model is optimized for instruction-following without “thinking mode”, and integrates well with OpenAI-compatible tool-use formats.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 is a 30.5B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model from Qwen, with 3.3B active parameters per inference. It operates in non-thinking mode and is designed for high-quality instruction following, multilingual understanding, and agentic tool use. Post-trained on instruction data, it demonstrates competitive performance across reasoning (AIME, ZebraLogic), coding (MultiPL-E, LiveCodeBench), and alignment (IFEval, WritingBench) benchmarks. It outperforms its non-instruct variant on subjective and open-ended tasks while retaining strong factual and coding performance.

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is a high-performance, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks. It activates 22B of its 235B parameters per forward pass and natively supports up to 262,144 tokens of context. This "thinking-only" variant enhances structured logical reasoning, mathematics, science, and long-form generation, showing strong benchmark performance across AIME, SuperGPQA, LiveCodeBench, and MMLU-Redux. It enforces a special reasoning mode (</think>) and is designed for high-token outputs (up to 81,920 tokens) in challenging domains.

The model is instruction-tuned and excels at step-by-step reasoning, tool use, agentic workflows, and multilingual tasks. This release represents the most capable open-source variant in the Qwen3-235B series, surpassing many closed models in structured reasoning use cases.

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over repositories. The model features 480 billion total parameters, with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts).

Pricing for the Alibaba endpoints varies by context length. Once a request is greater than 128k input tokens, the higher pricing is used.

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is a multilingual, instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts language model based on the Qwen3-235B architecture, with 22B active parameters per forward pass. It is optimized for general-purpose text generation, including instruction following, logical reasoning, math, code, and tool usage. The model supports a native 262K context length and does not implement "thinking mode" (<think> blocks).

Compared to its base variant, this version delivers significant gains in knowledge coverage, long-context reasoning, coding benchmarks, and alignment with open-ended tasks. It is particularly strong on multilingual understanding, math reasoning (e.g., AIME, HMMT), and alignment evaluations like Arena-Hard and WritingBench.

Qwen3-0.6B is a lightweight, 0.6 billion parameter language model in the Qwen3 series, offering support for both general-purpose dialogue and structured reasoning through a dual-mode (thinking/non-thinking) architecture. Despite its small size, it supports long contexts up to 32,768 tokens and provides multilingual, tool-use, and instruction-following capabilities.

Qwen3-1.7B is a compact, 1.7 billion parameter dense language model from the Qwen3 series, featuring dual-mode operation for both efficient dialogue (non-thinking) and advanced reasoning (thinking). Despite its small size, it supports 32,768-token contexts and delivers strong multilingual, instruction-following, and agentic capabilities, including tool use and structured output.

Qwen3-4B is a 4 billion parameter dense language model from the Qwen3 series, designed to support both general-purpose and reasoning-intensive tasks. It introduces a dual-mode architecture—thinking and non-thinking—allowing dynamic switching between high-precision logical reasoning and efficient dialogue generation. This makes it well-suited for multi-turn chat, instruction following, and complex agent workflows.

Qwen3, the latest generation in the Qwen large language model series, features both dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures to excel in reasoning, multilingual support, and advanced agent tasks. Its unique ability to switch seamlessly between a thinking mode for complex reasoning and a non-thinking mode for efficient dialogue ensures versatile, high-quality performance.

Significantly outperforming prior models like QwQ and Qwen2.5, Qwen3 delivers superior mathematics, coding, commonsense reasoning, creative writing, and interactive dialogue capabilities. The Qwen3-30B-A3B variant includes 30.5 billion parameters (3.3 billion activated), 48 layers, 128 experts (8 activated per task), and supports up to 131K token contexts with YaRN, setting a new standard among open-source models.

Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between "thinking" mode for math, coding, and logical inference, and "non-thinking" mode for general conversation. The model is fine-tuned for instruction-following, agent integration, creative writing, and multilingual use across 100+ languages and dialects. It natively supports a 32K token context window and can extend to 131K tokens with YaRN scaling.

Qwen3-14B is a dense 14.8B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both complex reasoning and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for tasks like math, programming, and logical inference, and a "non-thinking" mode for general-purpose conversation. The model is fine-tuned for instruction-following, agent tool use, creative writing, and multilingual tasks across 100+ languages and dialects. It natively handles 32K token contexts and can extend to 131K tokens using YaRN-based scaling.

Qwen3-32B is a dense 32.8B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, optimized for both complex reasoning and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for tasks like math, coding, and logical inference, and a "non-thinking" mode for faster, general-purpose conversation. The model demonstrates strong performance in instruction-following, agent tool use, creative writing, and multilingual tasks across 100+ languages and dialects. It natively handles 32K token contexts and can extend to 131K tokens using YaRN-based scaling.

Qwen3-235B-A22B is a 235B parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model developed by Qwen, activating 22B parameters per forward pass. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for complex reasoning, math, and code tasks, and a "non-thinking" mode for general conversational efficiency. The model demonstrates strong reasoning ability, multilingual support (100+ languages and dialects), advanced instruction-following, and agent tool-calling capabilities. It natively handles a 32K token context window and extends up to 131K tokens using YaRN-based scaling.

Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct is a 7B parameter instruction-tuned language model optimized for code-related tasks such as code generation, reasoning, and bug fixing. Based on the Qwen2.5 architecture, it incorporates enhancements like RoPE, SwiGLU, RMSNorm, and GQA attention with support for up to 128K tokens using YaRN-based extrapolation. It is trained on a large corpus of source code, synthetic data, and text-code grounding, providing robust performance across programming languages and agentic coding workflows.

This model is part of the Qwen2.5-Coder family and offers strong compatibility with tools like vLLM for efficient deployment. Released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Qwen2.5 VL 3B is a multimodal LLM from the Qwen Team with the following key enhancements:

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

Usage of this model is subject to Tongyi Qianwen LICENSE AGREEMENT.

Qwen2.5-VL-32B is a multimodal vision-language model fine-tuned through reinforcement learning for enhanced mathematical reasoning, structured outputs, and visual problem-solving capabilities. It excels at visual analysis tasks, including object recognition, textual interpretation within images, and precise event localization in extended videos. Qwen2.5-VL-32B demonstrates state-of-the-art performance across multimodal benchmarks such as MMMU, MathVista, and VideoMME, while maintaining strong reasoning and clarity in text-based tasks like MMLU, mathematical problem-solving, and code generation.

QwQ is the reasoning model of the Qwen series. Compared with conventional instruction-tuned models, QwQ, which is capable of thinking and reasoning, can achieve significantly enhanced performance in downstream tasks, especially hard problems. QwQ-32B is the medium-sized reasoning model, which is capable of achieving competitive performance against state-of-the-art reasoning models, e.g., DeepSeek-R1, o1-mini.

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is the instruction-tuned variant of the latest Qwen large language model series. It provides enhanced instruction-following capabilities, improved proficiency in coding and mathematical reasoning, and robust handling of structured data and outputs such as JSON. It supports long-context processing up to 128K tokens and multilingual tasks across 29+ languages. The model has 32.5 billion parameters, 64 layers, and utilizes an advanced transformer architecture with RoPE, SwiGLU, RMSNorm, and Attention QKV bias.

For more details, please refer to the Qwen2.5 Blog .

Qwen's Enhanced Large Visual Language Model. Significantly upgraded for detailed recognition capabilities and text recognition abilities, supporting ultra-high pixel resolutions up to millions of pixels and extreme aspect ratios for image input. It delivers significant performance across a broad range of visual tasks.

Qwen-Turbo, based on Qwen2.5, is a 1M context model that provides fast speed and low cost, suitable for simple tasks.

Qwen2.5-VL is proficient in recognizing common objects such as flowers, birds, fish, and insects. It is also highly capable of analyzing texts, charts, icons, graphics, and layouts within images.

Qwen-Plus, based on the Qwen2.5 foundation model, is a 131K context model with a balanced performance, speed, and cost combination.

Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among Qwen models, especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further post-trained with curated Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) methodologies. The parameter count is unknown.

QwQ-32B-Preview is an experimental research model focused on AI reasoning capabilities developed by the Qwen Team. As a preview release, it demonstrates promising analytical abilities while having several important limitations:

Qwen2.5-Coder is the latest series of Code-Specific Qwen large language models (formerly known as CodeQwen). Qwen2.5-Coder brings the following improvements upon CodeQwen1.5:

To read more about its evaluation results, check out Qwen 2.5 Coder's blog.

Qwen2.5 7B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2:

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Qwen2.5 72B is the latest series of Qwen large language models. Qwen2.5 brings the following improvements upon Qwen2:

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Qwen2.5 VL 7B is a multimodal LLM from the Qwen Team with the following key enhancements:

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

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Qwen2 7B is a transformer-based model that excels in language understanding, multilingual capabilities, coding, mathematics, and reasoning.

It features SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, and group query attention. It is pretrained on extensive data with supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization.

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

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Qwen2 72B is a transformer-based model that excels in language understanding, multilingual capabilities, coding, mathematics, and reasoning.

It features SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, and group query attention. It is pretrained on extensive data with supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization.

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

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Qwen1.5 14B is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data. In comparison with the previous released Qwen, the improvements include:

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

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Qwen1.5 32B is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data. In comparison with the previous released Qwen, the improvements include:

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

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Qwen1.5 72B is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data. In comparison with the previous released Qwen, the improvements include:

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

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Qwen1.5 4B is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data. In comparison with the previous released Qwen, the improvements include:

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

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Qwen1.5 7B is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data. In comparison with the previous released Qwen, the improvements include:

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

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Qwen1.5 110B is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data. In comparison with the previous released Qwen, the improvements include:

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

Usage of this model is subject to Tongyi Qianwen LICENSE AGREEMENT.