Alibaba Qwen Series (Qwen2.5 and Qwen3)

A major strength of the Qwen series is its licensing. All the mentioned models are released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, which allows for broad commercial use without significant restrictions. This has fostered wide adoption. API access through providers like DeepInfra and Novita is very affordable. For instance, the Qwen3 32B model starts at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens. The MoE variant, Qwen3 30B A3B, is priced similarly, highlighting the cost