Qwen License Agreement (Tongyi Qianwen)

Use, reproduce, modify and distribute the Qwen materials, including commercially, with attribution and the license passed on; above 100 million monthly active users you must request a separate license from Alibaba Cloud.

Summary — verify against the official license text. This reading has not yet been checked line by line against the official text; rely on that text, not this page.

SPDX LicenseRef-Qwen Version Qwen Official text

Uses at a glance

commercial use	Permitted
production deployment	Permitted
modification / derivatives	Permitted
redistribution	Permitted
sublicensing	Not documented
AI model training	Needs human review
inference-time use (RAG, prompts, generation)	Permitted

Why some uses need review

AI model training. Building on Qwen is allowed, but some versions of the agreement forbid using the materials or their outputs to improve any other large language model, and derivative models must be attributed ("Built with Qwen" / "Improved using Qwen"). A reviewer should confirm the version on your model card.

Duties

give attribution / keep the notice
license notice
user threshold

Notes

Many Qwen releases are Apache-2.0 instead; this entry is the Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) License Agreement used by some larger models. Check the model card.

Resources under this license

No resource in the registry is published under this license yet.

For agents

curl -s https://www.rightshold.com/v1/licenses/check -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"license":"LicenseRef-Qwen","intended_use":{"commercial_use":true,"deployment":true}}'

Reading version 2026-10-09 by the Rightshold rights desk; reference hash 91b27912955aeaad15f01f05dce188ab72f739af4081fc0398748caae685a8bd identifies this license version: it is computed over the SPDX id, the version and the official URL, not over the license text. The license text governs; this is not legal advice.