Qwen License (Tongyi Qianwen)

Commercial use allowed below 100M monthly active users; above that, a separate Alibaba license is required. Most recent Qwen models ship Apache-2.0 instead.

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Terms at a glance

Parsed from the licence text — not the marketing page.

Commercial use

ALLOWED

Redistribution

ALLOWED

Derivatives / fine-tunes

ALLOWED

Restrictions & caveats

Requires a separate licence above 100,000,000 monthly active users.
Services with >100M MAU require a separate license from Alibaba. Newer Qwen releases moved to Apache-2.0; this applies to the older Tongyi Qianwen-licensed weights.

No model under this licence yet

We hold the terms above, but nothing we list currently points at them. That is a gap on our side — it is not a statement about the licence.