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Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)

Alibaba Cloud's DashScope API provides OpenAI-compatible access to Qwen language models. Compatible with all OpenAI provider options in promptfoo.

Configuration​

providers:
  - qwen-max
  - id: alibaba:qwen-plus # Aliases: alicloud:, aliyun:, dashscope:
    config:
      temperature: 0.7
      apiKeyEnvar: 01234567890123456789012345678901 # or set `DASHSCOPE_API_KEY` to your Alibaba Cloud API key
      API_BASE_URL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1 # Optional: Override default API base URL

Models​

Commercial Models​

  • qwen-max - 32K context (30,720 in, 8,192 out)
  • qwen-plus - 128K context (129,024 in, 8,192 out)
  • qwen-turbo - 1M context (1M in, 8,192 out)

Snapshots available with -latest or date suffix (e.g., qwen-max-2025-01-25)

Visual Models​

  • qwen-vl-max - 7.5K context, 1,280 tokens/image
  • qwen-vl-plus - High-res image support
  • Qwen 2.5 VL: qwen2.5-vl-{72b,7b,3b}-instruct

Qwen 2.5 Series​

All support 131K context (129,024 in, 8,192 out)

  • qwen2.5-{72b,32b,14b,7b}-instruct
  • qwen2.5-{7b,14b}-instruct-1m

Qwen 2 Series​

  • qwen2-72b-instruct - 131K context
  • qwen2-57b-a14b-instruct - 65K context
  • qwen2-7b-instruct - 131K context

Qwen 1.5 Series​

8K context (6K in, 2K out)

  • qwen1.5-{110b,72b,32b,14b,7b}-chat

Embeddings​

  • text-embedding-v3 - 1,024d vectors, 8,192 token limit, 50+ languages

Additional Configuration​

  • vl_high_resolution_images: bool - Increases image token limit from 1,280 to 16,384 (qwen-vl-max only)

Standard OpenAI parameters (temperature, max_tokens) are supported. Base URL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1

For API usage details, see Alibaba Cloud documentation.