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Qwen 2.5
44
Stack Score
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, 20262 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
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