Alibaba DashScope / Qwen
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Qwen2.5 72B. Free quota via Alibaba Cloud.
LLMest. 1999 · Hangzhou, China
86
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
Free quota on signup · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Qwen2.5-72BQwen-LongQwen-VLQwen-Audio
Monthly Tokens
Free token quota on Alibaba account
No credit card needed
Phone verification required
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from openai 300">"text-purple-400">import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=300">"YOUR_DASHSCOPE_KEY",
base_url=300">"https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model=300">"qwen-plus",
messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)// Overview
Alibaba Cloud's DashScope platform provides API access to the Qwen model family including Qwen-Long, Qwen2.5-72B, and Qwen-VL. New users receive free token quota.
// Pros
- Qwen2.5 is top-tier open model
- Multimodal (vision + audio)
- OpenAI-compatible
// Cons
- Phone verification
- Alibaba account required
- Chinese docs
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)75/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)80/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)80/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
Qwen model accessMultimodal Chinese appsCost-effective Asia inference