Qwen Chat

What it is for

Qwen Chat is Alibaba’s hosted Qwen assistant: the official docs conversation (see the cover: Hi Qwen / Hello! How can I assist you today?, Qwen2.5-Max, Artifacts / Image / Video chips) is the product. Use it when the job is talk to Qwen in the browser, not when you need a self-hosted Qwen checkpoint.

The chat app is free to use. Open-weight Qwen models on GitHub/Hugging Face are a separate line. Do not paste Qwen Work / Token Plan dollars onto this listing.

What makes it unique: the official chat.qwen.ai/docs still is a real first exchange — not an empty composer.

Key features

• First exchange — Hi Qwen / Hello! How can I assist you today? with Thinking and Search chips (cover).
• Model picker — Qwen3.7-Plus on the live chrome we captured.
• Qwen home tools — Image Edit, Thinking, Search, Artifacts, Deep Research on qwen.ai.
• Open weights — QwenLM repos for local/API use; not the hosted chat bill.
• No seat card — official copy: free to use, open to all.

Who it's for

Best fit: anyone who wants a $0 Qwen chat in the browser.

Poor fit: teams that need a billed SLA seat (ChatGPT) or a local runtime you control (Ollama).

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-21 (Asia/Shanghai) from qwen.ai / chat.qwen.ai. The hosted chat is described as free to use, open to all.

• Qwen Chat — $0. No public Plus/Pro seat on the chat pages we fetched.
• Do not invent Qwen Work, Token Plan, or API $/1M figures on this listing. Those are other SKUs.

If a paid chat card appears later, copy that page — do not backfill from third-party blogs.

Limitations / costs

• Hosted chat is not the open-weight license. Running Qwen locally is a different product.
• No public paid chat ladder on the pages we copied — do not invent one.
• Not local. Prompts go to Alibaba Cloud unless you download weights.
• Feature chips on qwen.ai (image/video) may be plan- or region-gated even when chat is $0.

Alternatives

• ChatGPT — hosted general assistant; Plus $20/month on Help.
• Claude — Anthropic long-context chat; Pro $17/month billed annually.
• DeepSeek — hosted DeepSeek chat with a public free tier.

Official tutorial

Official channel: Qwen.

Written path: the signed-out chat.qwen.ai composer plus qwen.ai.

Website

https://chat.qwen.ai

Source

Catalog row is curated (2026-10-21). Cover is Qwen’s official chat.qwen.ai/docs conversation still (Hi Qwen + Qwen2.5-Max), not the empty signed-out composer. Hosted chat is $0 on qwen.ai / chat.qwen.ai. GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM

Last verified

2026-10-21 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.