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QwenWork 2.0: Power-User Guide to Team Agents, Trigger Tasks and Pricing

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Last updated: November 10, 2026

QwenWork 2.0, Alibaba’s AI office agent known in Chinese as Qwen Office, shipped on November 9, 2026. It adds team collaboration spaces with a shared digital employee, event-triggered automatic tasks, a mobile app that remotely controls your computer, cloud tasks from the desktop client and faster voice input.

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What’s new in QwenWork 2.0

QwenWork (千问办公) is Alibaba’s AI office platform. It runs on the desktop, on the web and inside DingTalk, and its product overview says it is built on the Qwen model family. The desktop client changelog lists version 2.0.0 on November 9, 2026, grouped into four areas.

  • Collaboration: a collaboration space turns one person chatting with AI into a team and an AI working in the same space. Each space has its own digital employee that uses the space’s files, discussions and agreed decisions to move work forward and assign to-dos.
  • Proactive work: the old Scheduled tasks entry is renamed Automatic tasks. It keeps time-based tasks and adds trigger tasks driven by DingTalk messages, approvals and to-dos.
  • Cross-device: the mobile app is officially launched for remote control of a chosen computer, and the desktop client can now start cloud tasks that sync across web, mobile, DingTalk and desktop.
  • Everyday use: a materials space collects generated and uploaded files plus DingTalk documents, AI tables and Yida apps. Voice input is near real time and uses conversation context and industry terms to resolve homophones. Human-AI co-editing lets you edit a DingTalk document or select cells and tell the AI what to change.

The official documentation is in Chinese. Feature names in this guide are our English translations.

QwenWork 1.5 vs 2.0

Version 1.5.0 (November 3) was a stability release. The table compares it with 2.0.0 using the same changelog.

Area 1.5.0 (Nov 3, 2026) 2.0.0 (Nov 9, 2026)
Teamwork Single-user tasks Collaboration spaces with a shared digital employee
Automation Scheduled tasks Automatic tasks: scheduled plus trigger tasks
Mobile Not listed Official app with remote control of your computer
Cloud tasks Not listed for the client Started from the client, synced across all endpoints
Admin Seat and login fixes Permission templates; super admins can disable client remote control

How to set up a collaboration space

The collaboration space documentation describes these steps. Spaces belong to an enterprise organization, so switch to the right company first.

  1. Open Collaboration and click New space.
  2. Enter a name of 1 to 50 characters, such as a product launch.
  3. Name the digital employee and pick an avatar. The default name is 千问小Q (Qwen Xiao Q).
  4. Search for colleagues in your company and add them as collaborators.
  5. Link data sources: DingTalk group chats, AI meeting notes, AI tables, DingTalk documents and DingTalk sheets.
  6. Click Create space, then assign work in the space chat and track it on the to-do board.

Linking a DingTalk group does not add its members to the space; inviting is a separate step. If you are not a group admin, your link request goes to the group admin for approval.

Scheduled and trigger tasks

According to the automatic tasks guide, scheduled tasks can run once, at an interval, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly. Trigger tasks start when a DingTalk event occurs.

  • Events: messages (for example an @mention, a direct message or a new message in a chosen group), approvals (a new approval for you, one copied to you, one you started finishing) and to-dos (created, updated or deleted).
  • Limits: up to 10 events per task. Filters support AND or OR logic and nested condition groups.
  • Run location: Cloud runs without the desktop client open. This computer can read and write local files and operate desktop apps, but the client must stay running and the computer awake.
  • Cost: every run creates its own conversation and consumes credits, the same as a manual task. The guide recommends testing a complex task by hand first.

Create tasks by describing them in any chat, through the panel or from templates. Run now works only for scheduled tasks.

Remote control and cloud tasks

The remote control documentation explains that tasks still run on the chosen computer. Remote control does not convert them into cloud tasks or sync all files to your phone.

  1. On the computer, open QwenWork and choose Remote control, then App and web.
  2. Turn on remote control for this computer, and turn on Keep system awake.
  3. Sign in on the mobile app or web with the same account and organization.
  4. Open an existing task, or start a new one and set the run location to that computer instead of Cloud.

You can answer task questions from your phone, but operating system permission dialogs must be handled on the computer. An organization can block remote control from its admin console.

Plans, credits and models

The personal plan page lists these prices in Chinese yuan:

  • Free: 0 yuan, no monthly plan credits, 10 parallel tasks, 5 published pages, 1 GB cloud storage.
  • Basic: 28 yuan per month (22 with auto-renew, 235 per year), 500 credits, 10 pages, 5 GB.
  • Standard: 98 yuan per month (78 with auto-renew, 823 per year), 2,000 credits, 10 pages, 10 GB.
  • Advanced: 198 yuan per month (158 with auto-renew, 1,663 per year), 4,000 credits, 50 pages, 20 GB.

Paid plans have unlimited parallel tasks. All plans receive 100 credits on the 1st of each month, and new users get 300 credits valid for three months. Since November 1, 2026, there is no daily login credit bonus for new or paid personal users. The model selector offers Advanced, Standard and Qwen3.8-Max.

For background on Alibaba’s consumer pricing, see Is Qwen free?. Developers may prefer the terminal agent covered in our Qwen Code CLI 0.26 guide.

Limitations

QwenWork is built around DingTalk, and the documentation and pricing target users in China. Collaboration spaces need a computer browser on the web and are not offered on mobile web or embedded DingTalk pages. The changelog publishes no context window or rate limits for 2.0.

For similar always-on work agents from other vendors, compare our guides to Perplexity Teammates, ChatGPT Dots and unified Claude in Claude Desktop.

Frequently asked questions

What is new in QwenWork 2.0?

Version 2.0.0, released November 9, 2026, adds collaboration spaces with a dedicated digital employee, trigger tasks alongside scheduled tasks, an official mobile app for remote control of your computer, cloud tasks started from the desktop client, a materials space, human-AI co-editing of DingTalk documents and faster voice input.

Is QwenWork the same as Qwen Office?

Yes. The Chinese product name is 千问办公, often translated as Qwen Office in news coverage, and the official documentation uses QwenWork as the English name. It is Alibaba’s AI office platform built on the Qwen model family.

How much does QwenWork cost?

The personal plans are Free (0 yuan), Basic (28 yuan per month, 500 credits), Standard (98 yuan per month, 2,000 credits) and Advanced (198 yuan per month, 4,000 credits). Every plan gets 100 bonus credits on the 1st of each month, and new users get 300 credits valid for three months.

Do trigger tasks need my computer to stay on?

Only if you choose to run them on This computer, which allows local file access and desktop app control. Tasks set to run in the cloud do not need the desktop client open. Each run creates its own conversation and consumes credits.

Can I use QwenWork 2.0 collaboration on my phone?

Not on mobile web. The documentation says collaboration spaces on the web require a computer browser and are not available on mobile web pages or embedded DingTalk pages. The mobile app is for remote control and cross-device tasks.

Sources

Image: Qwen logo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, placed on a white background. Qwen is a trademark of Alibaba Cloud; FreeAnswers is not affiliated with Alibaba.

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