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Qwen-Agent

Canonical page on the main site: sinoaihub.com/agents/qwen-agent

Type

agent

Key facts

  • Company: Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)
  • Type: framework
  • Capabilities: tool calling, browser use, MCP
  • Open source: yes (Apache-2.0)
  • Pricing: Framework free and open source (Apache-2.0). Model usage billed via DashScope API pay-as-you-go per token, or free with self-hosted open models. No subscription of its own.

Company

alibaba-cloud

API Platform

Description

Alibaba Qwen team's open-source Python framework for developing LLM applications based on Qwen's instruction following, tool usage, planning and memory capabilities (Apache-2.0). Serves as the backend of Qwen Chat (chat.qwen.ai). Ships example applications including BrowserQwen browser assistant, Docker-isolated Code Interpreter, RAG over 1M-token documents, MCP integration and Gradio GUI.

Agent Type

framework

Framework

Python framework (pip install qwen-agent); built-in Assistant / FnCallAgent / ReActChat agents with @register_tool; connects to DashScope API or self-hosted models via vLLM/Ollama

Tool Calling

Yes

Browser Use

Yes

Mcp

Yes

Memory

Yes

Planning

Yes

Api

Yes

Pricing

Framework free and open source (Apache-2.0). Model usage billed via DashScope API pay-as-you-go per token, or free with self-hosted open models. No subscription of its own.

Deployment

self_hosted

Open Source

Yes

License

Apache-2.0

Github

https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Agent

Documentation

https://qwenlm.github.io/Qwen-Agent/en/guide/

Use Cases

  • Custom LLM applications with tool calling
  • Browser automation assistant (BrowserQwen)
  • RAG over 1M-token documents
  • Code interpreter and PDF-reading assistants
  • MCP tool integration and agent evaluation via DeepPlanning benchmark

Limitations

  • Docker-based code interpreter has only basic sandbox isolation - use with caution in production
  • TIR math demo Python executor is not sandboxed (local testing only)
  • GUI requires Python 3.10+
  • Last GitHub release v0.0.26 on 2025-05-29; repo development cadence has slowed since

Verification Status

verified

Last Verified

2026-09-20

Source history

No documented source-change events located as of 2026-09-20.

Sources

evidence_id source_name source_url source_type published verified confidence conflict
src-agents-qwen-agent-1 Qwen-Agent GitHub repository https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Agent Official documentation — 2026-09-20 high —
src-agents-qwen-agent-2 Qwen-Agent docs guide https://qwenlm.github.io/Qwen-Agent/en/guide/ Official documentation — 2026-09-20 high —