Models / Providers

Qwen

Genesis now treats Qwen as a first-class bundled provider with canonical id qwen. The bundled provider targets the Qwen Cloud / Alibaba DashScope and Coding Plan endpoints and keeps legacy modelstudio ids working as a compatibility alias.

• Provider: qwen
• Preferred env var: QWEN_API_KEY
• Also accepted for compatibility: MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY, DASHSCOPE_API_KEY
• API style: OpenAI-compatible

Getting started

Choose your plan type and follow the setup steps.

Coding Plan (subscription)

Best for: subscription-based access through the Qwen Coding Plan.

Get your API key

Create or copy an API key from home.qwencloud.com/api-keys.

Run onboarding

For the Global endpoint:

genesis onboard --auth-choice qwen-api-key

For the China endpoint:

genesis onboard --auth-choice qwen-api-key-cn

Set a default model

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "qwen/qwen3.5-plus" },
    },
  },
}

Verify the model is available

genesis models list --provider qwen

Standard (pay-as-you-go)

Best for: pay-as-you-go access through the Standard Model Studio endpoint, including models like qwen3.6-plus that may not be available on the Coding Plan.

Get your API key

Create or copy an API key from home.qwencloud.com/api-keys.

Run onboarding

For the Global endpoint:

genesis onboard --auth-choice qwen-standard-api-key

For the China endpoint:

genesis onboard --auth-choice qwen-standard-api-key-cn

Set a default model

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "qwen/qwen3.5-plus" },
    },
  },
}

Verify the model is available

genesis models list --provider qwen

Plan types and endpoints

The provider auto-selects the endpoint based on your auth choice. Canonical choices use the qwen-* family; modelstudio-* remains compatibility-only. You can override with a custom baseUrl in config.

Built-in catalog

Genesis currently ships this bundled Qwen catalog. The configured catalog is endpoint-aware: Coding Plan configs omit models that are only known to work on the Standard endpoint.

Multimodal add-ons

The qwen plugin also exposes multimodal capabilities on the Standard DashScope endpoints (not the Coding Plan endpoints):

• Video understanding via qwen-vl-max-latest
• Wan video generation via wan2.6-t2v (default), wan2.6-i2v, wan2.6-r2v, wan2.6-r2v-flash, wan2.7-r2v

To use Qwen as the default video provider:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      videoGenerationModel: { primary: "qwen/wan2.6-t2v" },
    },
  },
}

Advanced configuration

Image and video understanding

The bundled Qwen plugin registers media understanding for images and video on the Standard DashScope endpoints (not the Coding Plan endpoints).

Media understanding is auto-resolved from the configured Qwen auth — no additional config is needed. Ensure you are using a Standard (pay-as-you-go) endpoint for media understanding support.

Qwen 3.6 Plus availability

qwen3.6-plus is available on the Standard (pay-as-you-go) Model Studio endpoints:

• China: dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
• Global: dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1

If the Coding Plan endpoints return an "unsupported model" error for qwen3.6-plus, switch to Standard (pay-as-you-go) instead of the Coding Plan endpoint/key pair.

Capability plan

The qwen plugin is being positioned as the vendor home for the full Qwen Cloud surface, not just coding/text models.

• Text/chat models: bundled now
• Tool calling, structured output, thinking: inherited from the OpenAI-compatible transport
• Image generation: planned at the provider-plugin layer
• Image/video understanding: bundled now on the Standard endpoint
• Speech/audio: planned at the provider-plugin layer
• Memory embeddings/reranking: planned through the embedding adapter surface
• Video generation: bundled now through the shared video-generation capability

Video generation details

For video generation, Genesis maps the configured Qwen region to the matching DashScope AIGC host before submitting the job:

• Global/Intl: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com
• China: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com

That means a normal models.providers.qwen.baseUrl pointing at either the Coding Plan or Standard Qwen hosts still keeps video generation on the correct regional DashScope video endpoint.

Current bundled Qwen video-generation limits:

• Up to 1 output video per request
• Up to 1 input image
• Up to 4 input videos
• Up to 10 seconds duration
• Supports size, aspectRatio, resolution, audio, and watermark
• Reference image/video mode currently requires remote http(s) URLs. Local file paths are rejected up front because the DashScope video endpoint does not accept uploaded local buffers for those references.

Streaming usage compatibility

Native Model Studio endpoints advertise streaming usage compatibility on the shared openai-completions transport. Genesis keys that off endpoint capabilities now, so DashScope-compatible custom provider ids targeting the same native hosts inherit the same streaming-usage behavior instead of requiring the built-in qwen provider id specifically.

Native-streaming usage compatibility applies to both the Coding Plan hosts and the Standard DashScope-compatible hosts:

• https://coding.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1
• https://coding-intl.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1
• https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
• https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1

Multimodal endpoint regions

Multimodal surfaces (video understanding and Wan video generation) use the Standard DashScope endpoints, not the Coding Plan endpoints:

• Global/Intl Standard base URL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
• China Standard base URL: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1

Environment and daemon setup

If the Gateway runs as a daemon (launchd/systemd), make sure QWEN_API_KEY is available to that process (for example, in ~/.genesis/.env or via env.shellEnv).

Related

• Model selection Choosing providers, model refs, and failover behavior.

• Video generation Shared video tool parameters and provider selection.

• Alibaba (ModelStudio) Legacy ModelStudio provider and migration notes.

• Troubleshooting General troubleshooting and FAQ.