Vision-Language
Open-weight
Apache 2.0

Qwen-VL

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)

Alibaba's multimodal vision-language family. Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen2-VL — the canonical open-weight VLMs for OCR + document understanding + chart reading + UI analysis. Qwen2.5-VL beats specialized OCR engines on complex layouts.

Editorial in progress

Deep editorial (architecture evolution, runtime + quantization support, finetune ecosystem, deployment caveats) is shipping incrementally per family.

For now, see featured models and recommended runtimes in the sidebar — those are curated picks from our editorial coverage.

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Before you buy

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