Qwen 4

Qwen 4 (August 2026) is Alibaba's latest open-weight model family, spanning small on-device sizes up to a large flagship — strong at coding and math, with native support for 100+ languages including deep Indic-language coverage.

Best for

• Self-hosting on your own hardware — full range of open weights, small to large
• Coding and math-heavy tasks at low cost
• Multilingual apps needing strong Hindi and other Indic-language support
• Developers who want to fine-tune an open model for a specific use case

How it compares — and the India angle

• Like Kimi K3 and Mistral Large 3, Qwen 4 is open-weight — India's growing self-hosted AI scene has three strong free options to choose from now.
• The smaller Qwen 4 variants run on modest consumer GPUs, useful for developers without big cloud budgets.
• Available on Hugging Face, ModelScope, via the Qwen API, and through Alibaba Cloud.