Alternatives

Best Qwen alternatives

10 tools similar to Qwen, ranked by how closely they match what it does among chat assistants. All 10 have a free option.

Qwen alternatives at a glance

Tool	Pricing	Compare
Qwen(this tool)	Freemium
ChatGPT	Freemium	vs Qwen
Meta AI	Free	vs Qwen
Gemini	Freemium · from $19.99/mo	vs Qwen
Jan	Free
Poe	Freemium · from $19.99/mo
DeepSeek	Freemium
Z.ai	Freemium
Rewind.ai	Freemium · from $5/mo
Grok	Freemium · from $8/mo
Character.AI	Freemium · from $9.99/mo

Top 10 alternatives to Qwen

ChatGPT

Free

Chat assistants

OpenAI's conversational AI — the world's most widely-used LLM interface.

Free ($0/mo), Go ($8/mo), Plus ($20/mo), Pro (from $100/mo), Business and Enterprise plans also available.

Free tierEveryoneAPI

OpenAI

Meta AI

Free

Chat assistants

Meta's free AI assistant built into Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook.

MetaWhatsAppInstagramFacebook

FreeNo-code

Gemini

Free

Chat assistants

Google's multimodal AI assistant with deep Search and Workspace integration

Free tier available

Google

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Google10M+ users

Jan

Free

Chat assistants

Personal AI intelligence that runs locally and answers only to you

Free and open source

OpenAIAnthropicGoogle GeminiMeta Llama+5

FreeEveryoneAPIOSSSelf-host

Multiple (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and local/open models)45kPopular

Poe

Free

Chat assistants

One platform to access, chat, and build with the world's best AI models

Points-based system mentioned ('Get more points')

Google (Sign-in)Apple (Sign-in)

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Multi-provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and others)

DeepSeek

Free

Chat assistants

Frontier AI models with world-class reasoning — free to chat, open to build on

Free to use with API options available

APIWeb AppMobile App

Free tierEveryoneAPIOSSSelf-host

DeepSeekPopular

Z.ai

Free

Chat assistants

AI chatbot and agent built on Zhipu's GLM models

Free tierEveryone

GLM-5.3-Flash

Rewind.ai

Free

Chat assistants

Every AI tool, completely free — 400+ models in one place

Free tier: 5,000 tokens/day (2,500 without account). Basic: $5/mo for 200K tokens/mo. Pro: $19/mo for 1M tokens/mo + API access. Business: $49/mo for 5M tokens/mo + team features. One-time token packs also available starting at $5.

Chrome Extension

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Multiple (Qwen, FLUX, Wan, Kokoro, Whisper, Llama, DeepSeek, GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini)Popular