QwenReleased Aug 2023Custom
Qwen-VL
We don't benchmark Qwen-VL.
It is an open-weight model from Qwen under a custom license; check its commercial-use terms.
Qwen-VL Overview
Qwen-VL is a large vision-language model released in August 2023 by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud. Built on the 7-billion-parameter Qwen language model with an added visual receptor based on Openclip ViT-bigG, the model accepts images, text, and bounding box coordinates as inputs, and can produce both text and bounding boxes as outputs. Qwen-VL processes images at 448×448 resolution, higher than the 224×224 input used by many contemporaneous vision-language models, which supports finer-grained visual recognition and text-heavy tasks such as OCR. This design supports a range of multimodal tasks in a single model, including image captioning, visual question answering, visual grounding, text recognition, and image-conditioned dialogue, with native support for English, Chinese, and multilingual conversation.
Qwen-VL License
Custom License · Model-specific licenseQwen-VL ships under a custom, model-specific license rather than a standard permissive or restrictive one, so the Qwen-VL license has to be read directly. Custom model licenses range from effectively permissive to research-only.
- Commercial use
- Varies. Custom model licenses commonly restrict commercial use, cap monthly active users, or carve out specific industries — check the Qwen-VL terms before you build on it.
- Modification
- Usually permitted for fine-tuning, but check whether derivative weights inherit the same license and naming requirements.
- Redistribution
- Often restricted. Look for attribution, naming, and acceptable-use requirements that apply to any copy you share.
Uncertainty around licensing can delay or stop a project, and acceptable-use policies attached to custom licenses are binding terms rather than guidance. Review them alongside the Qwen-VL license before production deployment.
Do I need a commercial license for Qwen-VL?
If the custom terms rule out your use case, a commercial license from the rights holder is the way through. Roboflow's licensing page lists the supported models whose commercial license is included in a Roboflow plan, so it is worth checking whether Qwen-VL — or a permissively licensed alternative — fits your deployment.
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