Link Shield records 497 monthly visits with +4,041.7% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Qwen 4 (Alibaba Qwen4) records 35,101,353 monthly visits with -6.2% growth and Freemium pricing.
AI-assisted URL threat detection API for developers
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 | linkshieldapi.com | qwen.ai |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 497 (497) | 35.1M (35,101,353) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
|---|
| +485 (+4,041.7%) |
| -2.34M (-6.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇮🇩 Indonesia (100%) | 🇷🇺 Russia (37.2%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 198 | 25.02M |
|---|
| User Rating | 4 | 4.7 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website, API, Open Source |
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AI-assisted URL threat detection API for developers
Every scan returns a numeric score plus explanatory reasons, so you can act on a link with confidence rather than trusting an opaque verdict.
Short links and redirect chains are unwrapped and followed, revealing hidden final destinations before they reach your users.
Links are classified across phishing, malware, scam, adult, dating, gambling, crypto and spam, supporting nuanced content policies.
Send batches of URLs in a single request and receive per-link risk scores, which suits high-volume pipelines and link shorteners.
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.
Provides robust developer tools and multimodal APIs, but relies on Google's closed Gemini models rather than open-weight alternatives.
#2SpecialistAggregates hundreds of models behind one API gateway, but functions as a router rather than hosting native Qwen infrastructure.
#3
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.
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.
SpecialistSpecializes in memory-efficient fine-tuning for open-weight models, but requires external infrastructure to deploy full production APIs.
Delivers exceptionally high-throughput inference for open-weight models, but focuses more on general open-source deployment than Qwen-specific tools.
Detect AI-generated text and images with benchmark-tested accuracy
AI detector that highlights evidence, not just a score
Free / Open-sourceProvides state-of-the-art open-weight reasoning models and low-cost APIs, but with less emphasis on multimodal Alibaba ecosystem tools.
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.
SpecialistSpecializes in memory-efficient fine-tuning for open-weight models, but requires external infrastructure to deploy full production APIs.
Detect AI-generated text and images with benchmark-tested accuracy
AI detector that highlights evidence, not just a score
