Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the Chinese e-commerce giant and rising leader in artificial intelligence, is expanding its push into software coding tools by offering affordable access to several top AI models in China.

The company’s cloud division is providing a coding tool built on open-source models, including Alibaba’s own Qwen 3.5, as well as models from local startups Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax Group Inc, according to Bloomberg.

Users can freely switch between these models.

The service offers a lite version for 7.9 yuan ($1.15) for the first month, rising to 40 yuan in subsequent months, while the pro version starts at 39.9 yuan for the first month and then 200 yuan thereafter.

AI coding tools have drawn close attention in recent weeks, as offerings from companies like Anthropic have triggered waves of investor sell-offs in potentially vulnerable sectors.

Alibaba is pivoting from e-commerce to AI, with its Qwen models praised for high performance and low-cost, open-source access.

This month, it updated Qwen 3.5, which supports AI agent tasks and can analyze text, images, and videos up to two hours, aiming to stay ahead of competitor DeepSeek.