Qwen (Alibaba)

Current commercial flagship on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian), 1M-token context. Listed first ('most capable') on the Recommended models page (updated 2026-06-22): 'From most capable to most cost-effective — pick what fits your use case' (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model

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Balanced-tier commercial model, 1M-token context. Doc: 'We recommend `qwen3.7-plus` for balanced performance and cost, with full tool calling and a 1M-token context window for large codebases. For the strongest reasoning, choose `qwen3.7-max`.' and migration table 'Balanced GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.

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Lightweight, low-cost commercial model, 1M-token context. Migration table: 'Lightweight & low-cost GPT-5.4-mini, Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.1 Flash`qwen3.6-flash`, `deepseek-v4-flash`, `MiniMax-M2.5`'; use-case doc: 'To cut costs, switch to `qwen3.6-flash`, which offers similar capabilities at a low

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Largest open-weight Qwen3 MoE flagship (235B total / 22B active), Apache 2.0. QwenLM/Qwen3 GitHub README: '2025.07.21: We released the updated version of Qwen3-235B-A22B non-thinking mode, named Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, featuring significant enhancements over the previous version and supportin

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