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Qwen

A tier

Alibaba's open chat model. Multilingual + agentic.

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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.

Strengths

  • Excellent Chinese + Vietnamese + SEA languages
  • Strong at tool-use + agentic workflows
  • Open weights (Qwen2.5, Qwen3)

Weaknesses

  • English quality behind Claude/GPT
  • Less well-known outside Asia

Best for

Vietnamese/Chinese content, SEA multilingual use, developers wanting open-weight tool-use.

Pricing

Free web + API

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