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24 alternatives to Qwen 1.5 MoE
Highly efficient mixture-of-expert (MoE) model from Alibaba
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Qwen 1.5 MoE launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Qwen2.5-Max▲59Large language model series developed by Alibaba Cloud
2025 · qwenlm.github.io · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B▲124The open sparse MoE model for agentic coding
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen's most advanced reasoning model yet
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5 Small▲3550.8B-9B native multimodal w/ more intelligence, less compute
Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5▲288The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params
Feb 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-27B▲120The sweet-spot open dense model for coding agents
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen3-Coder▲248A powerful open model for agentic coding tasks
2025 · qwenlm.github.io · its alternatives →
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Last week was big for open source LLMs. We got: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) - Gemma-3 (27b) - DeepSeek-v3-0324 And a couple weeks ago we got the new mistral-ocr model. We updated our OCR benchmark to include the new models. We evaluated 1,000 documents for JSON extraction accuracy. Major takeaways: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) are by far the most impressive. Both landed right around 75% accuracy (equivalent to GPT-4o’s performance). Qwen 72b was only 0.4% above 32b. Within the margin of error. - Both Qwen models passed mistral-ocr (72.2%), which is specifically trained for OCR. - Gemma-3…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Metal-first MoE inference for Apple Silicon with bounded SSD expert streaming and local OpenAI Chat, Responses, and Anthropic Messages endpoints. - hebrus-labs/hebrus
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Nextfree tier▲108The open-weight preview of Qwen4
Aug 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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A global, black box optimization engine for real world metric optimization. - YelpArchive/MOE
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kimi K2▲345The 1T parameter open model for agentic intelligence
2025 · moonshotai.github.io · its alternatives →
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Oxlo.ai▲378Scale across AI models without scaling your bill
Jun 2026 · oxcode.ai · its alternatives →
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Mistral Small 3▲446High performance in a 24b open-source model
2025 · mistral.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-Plus▲139Multimodal AI optimized for real-world coding agents
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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