Curious users get Alibaba's general chatbot for free, and no paid plan was shown on the pages checked.

Kenning's take

What it does

Qwen is Alibaba's AI assistant app, built on its own Qwen models, for questions, research, writing and study help. It can reason through harder problems step by step, search the web, and read images, audio and video as well as text.

• deep thinking mode for step-by-step reasoning
• web search
• understands text, images, audio and video
• creative writing help

Who it suits. Suits people who want a free general chatbot and are curious to try Alibaba's models.

Key facts

Category

Everyday AI assistants

Made by

Alibaba Cloud (Singapore) Private Limited on Google Play; the UK iPhone apps are sold by NTH POWER GLOBAL TECH SINGAPORE PTE. LTD

Based in

Singapore (publisher addresses); part of China's Alibaba group

Launched

2025

Works on

Android, iPhone, Web

In the UK

Yes

Free plan

free; no paid plan shown on chat.qwen.ai or Google Play

Ratings

• App Store (UK)5.022 ratings
• Google Play (UK)3.915,999 ratings

Models and features

• MAI-UI 2025-12-29
• Qwen-Image-2.0
• Qwen-Image-Layered 2025-12-17 (Hugging Face upload)
• Qwen-Image-3.0 2026-07-21
• Qwen VLo 2025-06-26
• Qwen3-Coder 2025-07-22
• Qwen3-Coder-Next 2026-01-30 (Hugging Face upload)
• Qwen3-Max-Thinking 2026-01-27
• Qwen3-TTS 2026-01-22
• Qwen3.5 Small 2026-02-27 (Hugging Face uploads, 27 to 28 February 2026)
• Qwen3.5-Omni
• Qwen3.6-27B 2026-04-21 (Hugging Face upload)
• Qwen3.7-Max 2026-05-20

Reviews and write-ups

• BusinessDay (Reuters) 2025-11-18

FAQ

Facts from the maker's own pages and the sources listed. Checked 2026-10-11.