Qwen2.5 is Alibaba’s Qwen generation of open-weight and API language models documented on the Qwen GitHub/Hugging Face orgs, spanning multiple sizes and specialized variants.
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Qwen2.5
Alibaba Cloud · Qwen family · Text (plus related Qwen2.5-VL / coder variants as separate cards)
Intelligence Summary
Model- Model intelligence
- Developer Alibaba Cloud
- Family Qwen
- Modalities Text (plus related Qwen2.5-VL / coder variants as separate cards)
- API DashScope / Alibaba Cloud model studio where offered; self-host.
- Licensing See individual Qwen2.5 model cards (often Tongyi Qianwen license / Apache for some releases).
- Deployment Cloud API and self-host.
- Documentation Official docs
- Last reviewed Jul 2026
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Editorial overview
Capabilities
- Multilingual text models across sizes
- Specialized coder and VL variants in the same generation
API availability
DashScope / Alibaba Cloud model studio where offered; self-host.
Deployment options
Cloud API and self-host.
Limitations
- Variant naming is broad—cite the exact checkpoint in deployments
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