Tongyi is Alibaba’s family of large language models packaged as an all-round AI assistant. It offers free public access to smart Q&A, writing, code generation and multimodal interaction.
The lineup includes Tongyi Qianwen (flagship chat model), Tongyi Wanxiang (AI image & video creation), Tingwu (audio/video processing) and Lingma (AI coding companion).
Tongyi handles many languages and dialects with real-time translation and multilingual chat, ideal for global content creation and cross-border communication.
It can process very long texts and parse multiple file formats in a single session, making document analysis fast and accurate.
Core features are free for public use via web, mobile app or WeChat mini-program. Premium add-ons are priced separately—check the official site for details.
Writers, developers, office staff, students, teachers and researchers who need AI help with writing, coding, document work or learning support.
Access it through the web portal, mobile app, WeChat mini-program or browser extension; developers can also integrate via API.
It generates, completes, explains and debugs code in many languages. Install Tongyi Lingma inside your IDE for seamless assistance.
Tongyi Qianwen is Alibaba's AI assistant platform, offering intelligent conversations, multimodal creation, and code generation to help users efficiently complete content creation and development tasks.

Alibaba Cloud's self-developed large language model offering text generation, multilingual translation, code writing, and document summarization for businesses and developers at low cost with high concurrency and private-deployment options.