Qwen vs Solar LLM
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Qwen
Alibaba's LLM family: open Qwen3 weights plus closed Qwen3.7-Max
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Solar LLM
Upstage's Solar LLMs — Korea's frontier family, now Solar Pro 3
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.6 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Open-weight Qwen3 models free to download and self-host | Free to download |
| Paid from | Qwen3 Max preview API priced per-token on Alibaba Cloud | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Consumer app ~203M MAU (April 2026), #3 globally | 200k+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 |
| Maker | Alibaba Group | Upstage AI |
| Verdict | Qwen is Alibaba's flagship LLM family and a cornerstone of the open-weight ecosystem — the Qwen3 line ships freely on Hugging Face from small dense models up to large MoE sizes. Capability is frontier-adjacent on coding,... |
Solar is the rare 2023 open-weights story that grew into a real product line. The Apache-2.0 Solar 10.7B and its depth up-scaling trick topped the Hugging Face leaderboard in December 2023; the commercial line then kept... |
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