Free / Open-sourceProvides state-of-the-art open-weight reasoning models and low-cost APIs, but with less emphasis on multimodal Alibaba ecosystem tools.

Qwen 4 (Alibaba Qwen4) records 35,101,353 monthly visits with -6.2% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Stable Diffusion API records 26,802 monthly visits with -21.8% growth and Paid pricing.

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 | qwen.ai | stablediffusionapi.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 35.1M (35,101,353) | 26.8K (26,802) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
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| -2.34M (-6.2%) |
| -7.49K (-21.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇷🇺 Russia (37.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (16.5%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 25.02M | 8.53K |
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| User Rating | 4.7 | 4.2 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website, API, Open Source | Website |
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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.

One REST endpoint for SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux and 10,000+ community models
One POST endpoint handles text-to-image, image-to-image and editing jobs across SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux, ControlNet and LoRA models, with cURL, Python and Node samples for each model.
Thousands of community checkpoints and LoRAs, including anime, photorealistic and stylized families, are browsable with their parameters and sample code.
Requests return a job id or track id so long-running generations can be polled or pushed to your own webhook endpoint instead of blocking the client.
Dreambooth-style endpoints let you train custom concepts and styles on your own images, then reuse the resulting model ids in generation calls.
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.
#3Free / Open-sourceOne API key for hundreds of AI models from every major provider

Offers competing Chinese foundation model APIs and agent builders, but specializes in Zhipu AI's GLM architecture.
SpecialistMiniMax's open-weight model for turning prompts into images

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

Free / Open-sourceTogether AI is the AI Native Cloud — a full-stack platform for running, fine-tuning and training open-source models. It spans serverless inference APIs, dedicated endpoints, GPU clusters, post-training and storage, all backed by in-house systems research.

Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable multimodal foundation model APIs from a major tech giant, but utilizes Tencent's proprietary Hunyuan architecture.

Free / Open-sourceRun, fine-tune, and deploy machine learning models with one line of code
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.
Free / Open-sourceOne API key for hundreds of AI models from every major provider
Offers competing Chinese foundation model APIs and agent builders, but specializes in Zhipu AI's GLM architecture.
SpecialistMiniMax's open-weight model for turning prompts into images
Free / Open-sourceProvides lightweight open-weight models for local deployment, but offers smaller parameter sizes compared to top-tier Qwen variants.
Free / Open-sourceTogether AI is the AI Native Cloud — a full-stack platform for running, fine-tuning and training open-source models. It spans serverless inference APIs, dedicated endpoints, GPU clusters, post-training and storage, all backed by in-house systems research.
Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable multimodal foundation model APIs from a major tech giant, but utilizes Tencent's proprietary Hunyuan architecture.
Free / Open-sourceRun, fine-tune, and deploy machine learning models with one line of code