# Qwen Studio

> Alibaba Cloud's chat app for the Qwen family of AI models

Qwen Studio is Alibaba Cloud's chat app for its Qwen models, reached at chat.qwen.ai and in iOS and Android apps. It covers chat with a deep-thinking mode, web search, image and video understanding, image generation and editing, document processing, and voice and video chat. The apps are free to install; the web app also shows paid Go, Plus and Pro tiers, whose prices could not be confirmed.

- **Category:** AI Assistants
- **Made by:** Alibaba Cloud (since 2023)
- **Website:** https://chat.qwen.ai
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Qwen Studio's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site.


## Key features

- **Deep Thinking:** A reasoning mode for complex problems that draws on real-time internet data to work toward a logical, step-by-step answer.
- **Search:** Finds answers and resources from across the web, using the context of the query to narrow the results.
- **Multimodal understanding:** Processes text, images, audio and video together, for example reading data from a chart or pulling key points from an audio clip.
- **Image generation and editing:** Creates images from a description for presentations, illustrations or concept designs, and the site also lists image editing.
- **Voice and video chat:** The site lists voice and video chat with the assistant among its functions, alongside document processing, tool use and artifacts.

## Good for

- People who want to use Alibaba's Qwen models in a chat app
- Working with images, audio and video as well as text
- Free everyday chat, search and image generation on a phone

## Worth knowing

- Prices for the Go, Plus and Pro tiers could not be confirmed: the pricing view on chat.qwen.ai did not load when read, and the store listings show no in-app purchases.
- The iOS app was not found on the US App Store when checked, though it is listed in other storefronts such as Canada and the UK.
- No Windows or Mac app is listed; the store listings cover iPhone, iPad and Android.
- The app stores list the app as Qwen Studio, while the website's page title still reads Qwen.

**Tags:** Chat assistant, AI search, AI features

## Alternatives

- [DeepSeek](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deepseek): Free AI chat assistant built on DeepSeek's openly released models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deepseek-vs-qwen)
- [Kimi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kimi): AI assistant and agent for research, slides, documents and code. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kimi-vs-qwen)
- [Z.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/z-ai): Chat assistant and agent built on Z.ai's GLM models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/qwen-vs-z-ai)
- [ChatGPT](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chatgpt): OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for chat, images and voice. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chatgpt-vs-qwen)
- [Gemini](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gemini): Google's AI assistant, tied into Gmail, Docs and other Google apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gemini-vs-qwen)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://chat.qwen.ai
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.qwenlm.chat.android
- https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/qwen-studio-ask-qwen-know-more/id6743778442
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwen

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