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| Tagline | Alibaba's open chat model. Multilingual + agentic. | The one that actually gets text in images right. | AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater. |
| Category | chat | image | research |
| Pricing | Free web + API | Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo | Free + $20/mo Pro |
| Best for | Vietnamese/Chinese content, SEA multilingual use, developers wanting open-weight tool-use. | Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks. | Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds. |
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| Kai's verdict | A-tier. The best open model for Vietnamese + Chinese. Don't sleep on it if you work in SEA. | S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art. | S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week. |
| Link | Open → | Open → | Open → |