Defapi records 45,178 monthly visits with +585.7% month-over-month growth and Paid pricing. Qwen 4 (Alibaba Qwen4) records 35,101,353 monthly visits with -6.2% growth and Freemium pricing.
Enterprise-grade gateway to hundreds of AI models through one API
Alibaba Cloud's 4th-generation multimodal AI assistant and foundation model lineup (Qwen4-Max, Qwen4-Plus, Qwen4-Flash & open-weight Qwen4-27B) with 1M context.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | defapi.org | qwen.ai |
| Pricing Model | Paid | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 45.18K (45,178) | 35.1M (35,101,353) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +38.59K (+585.7%) |
| -2.34M (-6.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (33.1%) | 🇷🇺 Russia (37.2%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 7.01K | 25.02M |
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| User Rating | 4.2 | 4.7 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website, API, Open Source |
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Enterprise-grade gateway to hundreds of AI models through one API
One endpoint and one API key reach models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and other vendors, removing the need to maintain separate integrations.
Requests can be routed to the most suitable or most cost-effective model automatically, with balancing across providers for stability.
Text/LLM, image generation, video generation, audio (speech recognition and synthesis) and specialised decision APIs are all available through the same interface.
Detailed performance and spend statistics let teams monitor cost, latency and usage per model or per key.
Alibaba Cloud's 4th-generation multimodal AI assistant and foundation model lineup (Qwen4-Max, Qwen4-Plus, Qwen4-Flash & open-weight Qwen4-27B) with 1M context.
Covers every compute envelope from the multi-trillion-scale Qwen4-Max flagship and Qwen4-Plus/Flash APIs to the local PC-friendly Qwen4-27B open-weight checkpoint, plus qwen4-coder-plus and qwen4-omni-120b-think.
Pioneered in the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next architecture preview, combining ultra-lean active parameter routing (6B active out of 125B) with a 51B n-gram embedding layer that trades compute for instant memorized lookup.
Sizes the Qwen 4 generation at a full 1M-token context window across text, code, images, audio, and video for repository-wide coding and cross-document reasoning.
Trained via multi-cycle automated Recursive Self-Improvement across coding, math, and hardware EDA workflows—demonstrating 10,000+ autonomous tool calls in chip design and software engineering.
Free / Open-sourceProvides state-of-the-art open-weight reasoning models and low-cost APIs, but with less emphasis on multimodal Alibaba ecosystem tools.
Enterprise developer platform and API for deploying GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, and realtime multimodal agents.
Provides robust developer tools and multimodal APIs, but relies on Google's closed Gemini models rather than open-weight alternatives.
#3SpecialistAggregates hundreds of models behind one API gateway, but functions as a router rather than hosting native Qwen infrastructure.
Offers competing Chinese foundation model APIs and agent builders, but specializes in Zhipu AI's GLM architecture.
Free / Open-sourceProvides lightweight open-weight models for local deployment, but offers smaller parameter sizes compared to top-tier Qwen variants.
SpecialistDelivers ultra-fast inference speeds using custom LPU hardware, but supports a more limited selection of open models.
One API for 1,500+ production-ready generative media models
Offers robust serverless APIs for open-source models, but lacks native training integrations specific to Alibaba's ecosystem.
Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable multimodal foundation model APIs from a major tech giant, but utilizes Tencent's proprietary Hunyuan architecture.
Free / Open-sourceOne OpenAI-compatible gateway for adaptive LLM routing, guardrails, and spend control
SpecialistSpecializes in memory-efficient fine-tuning for open-weight models, but requires external infrastructure to deploy full production APIs.
Free / Open-sourceProvides state-of-the-art open-weight reasoning models and low-cost APIs, but with less emphasis on multimodal Alibaba ecosystem tools.
Enterprise developer platform and API for deploying GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, and realtime multimodal agents.
Provides robust developer tools and multimodal APIs, but relies on Google's closed Gemini models rather than open-weight alternatives.
SpecialistAggregates hundreds of models behind one API gateway, but functions as a router rather than hosting native Qwen infrastructure.
Offers competing Chinese foundation model APIs and agent builders, but specializes in Zhipu AI's GLM architecture.
Free / Open-sourceProvides lightweight open-weight models for local deployment, but offers smaller parameter sizes compared to top-tier Qwen variants.
Offers robust serverless APIs for open-source models, but lacks native training integrations specific to Alibaba's ecosystem.
Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable multimodal foundation model APIs from a major tech giant, but utilizes Tencent's proprietary Hunyuan architecture.
Free / Open-sourceOne OpenAI-compatible gateway for adaptive LLM routing, guardrails, and spend control
SpecialistSpecializes in memory-efficient fine-tuning for open-weight models, but requires external infrastructure to deploy full production APIs.
