Alternatives to Qwen.

Other Models profiles in the same directory. Shared topics show where they overlap. Nothing here was timed, ranked by revenue, or tested on our laptops.

Qwen is Watch. Alibaba's Qwen open-weight family.

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DeepSeek weights

DeepSeek

Open-weight DeepSeek models. The license lives on the model card.

Weights are posted per model. There is no single price that covers every DeepSeek checkpoint.

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Kimi

Moonshot AI

Moonshot's Kimi models, including open-weight checkpoints.

Weights are free to download where the model card allows it. Hosted Kimi is a separate account.

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Llama

Meta

Meta's Llama open-weight models.

Weights are free under the Llama community license, which is not an OSI open-source license.

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MiniMax weights

MiniMax

MiniMax open-weight checkpoints.

Download terms are on the model card. A hosted MiniMax plan is a different product.

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Mistral open weights

Mistral

Mistral models you can download, as distinct from the paid API.

Some Mistral checkpoints are Apache 2.0. The hosted API is a separate bill. Read the card.

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