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Qwen 2.5

Alibaba's flagship open-source LLM family.

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Best for

Best for builders who need a strong OSS model with code/math specialization.

At a glance

Pricing
open-source
Setup time
1 hour
Learning curve
moderate
Last verified
5/25/2026

What we love

  • ✓Top OSS performance on many benchmarks
  • ✓Permissive Apache 2.0 license
  • ✓Specialized Code + Math variants

Where it falls short

  • −Smaller community than Llama
  • −Best perf needs sizeable GPU
  • −Some variants restricted (commercial use review)

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

2 tiers

Open-source

$0

perpetual

  • ✓Apache 2.0

Hosted

Usage

per token

  • ✓Together.ai
  • ✓Groq
  • ✓Fireworks

Overview

Qwen 2.5 is Alibaba's open-source LLM family — sizes from 0.5B to 72B, with Qwen2.5-Coder and Qwen2.5-Math variants. Strong multilingual (esp. Chinese) and code performance.

Key features

  • ●0.5B to 72B sizes
  • ●Code + Math variants
  • ●Strong multilingual (29 langs)
  • ●128K context
  • ●Apache 2.0

Best use cases

Self-host on commodity GPU

Run Qwen 7B or 14B on consumer hardware for private inference.

Coding assistant

Use Qwen 2.5 Coder for self-hosted code completion + chat.

Integrations

Hugging Face
Together.ai
Groq
Ollama
vLLM

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