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qwen capabilities

14 mapped capabilities, each graded and dated. This is the diagnosis — the migration guide is the cure.


Capabilities

Chat history

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat saves conversation history for signed-in users, making previous sessions accessible across devices and sessions.

low confidence · 0.55docssource ↗source ↗

Deep Research

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat's Deep Research mode conducts multi-step web investigations on a topic and produces a structured, cited report; outputs can optionally be converted to a hosted webpage or multi-speaker podcast.

low confidence · 0.60docssource ↗source ↗

Developer API (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio / DashScope)

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Developers can access all Qwen models programmatically via the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API, which supports both a native DashScope SDK and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

low confidence · 0.55docssource ↗source ↗

Free access and plan

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat is free to use for general users on web and mobile, with no subscription required to access core features including image generation, web search, thinking mode, and multimodal input.

low confidence · 0.60docssource ↗source ↗

Image editing

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat lets users upload an image and modify it via text instructions, including style transfer, object addition or removal, background changes, and bilingual text edits.

low confidence · 0.55docssource ↗source ↗

Image generation

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat can generate images from text prompts using Qwen-Image, a 20B MMDiT image foundation model with strong text rendering in both English and Chinese.

low confidence · 0.50docssource ↗

Image upload and vision understanding

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Users can upload images to Qwen Chat for visual question answering, OCR, chart reading, object recognition, document parsing, and image editing via the Qwen VLo preview.

low confidence · 0.55docssource ↗source ↗

Mobile apps

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat is available as a free native app on iOS and Android, with feature parity to the web interface plus mobile-exclusive capabilities like a floating panel on Android.

low confidence · 0.60docssource ↗source ↗

Model picker

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat lets users choose from multiple Qwen models in the interface, including the latest Qwen3.5 and Qwen3 series, trading off capability and speed.

low confidence · 0.55docssource ↗source ↗

Thinking / reasoning mode

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat exposes a hybrid thinking mode powered by Qwen3 that lets users toggle between extended step-by-step reasoning and fast non-thinking responses within the same conversation.

low confidence · 0.55docssource ↗source ↗

Video generation

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat includes video generation powered by Alibaba's Wan model family, allowing users to generate short video clips from text prompts or uploaded images.

low confidence · 0.55docssource ↗source ↗

Voice and omni multimodal

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat supports real-time voice conversation and omni-modal input (text, image, audio, video) via the Qwen-Omni model family, with streaming speech output in multiple languages.

low confidence · 0.60docssource ↗source ↗

Web Dev (code artifacts)

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat's Web Dev mode generates fully functional front-end websites (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) from a single natural language prompt, rendered inline as a live preview.

medium confidence · 0.80docssource ↗source ↗

Web search

provisionalverified 2 days ago

Qwen Chat can search the web in real time to answer questions with current information, filtering and synthesizing results before responding.

low confidence · 0.60docssource ↗source ↗

Editorial guidance, not a warranty. AI tools change weekly; every entry carries the date it was last verified. Verify before relying on a specific capability.