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Qwen Code
Open-source terminal coding agent from the Qwen team, with a VS Code companion, for Qwen, other APIs or local models.
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Local or cloud
- Free, open source
Where it ranks
- B
Tools without a benchmark of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer.
Facts
- Vendor
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Approach
- Coding agents
- Where it runs
- Runs fully on your hardware with local models; cloud models optional
- Interface
- Command line, IDE extension
- Skill level
- Intermediate: some setup or configuration
- Price
- Free, open source
- Pricing notes
- Open source; pay for a QwenCloud / Alibaba Model Studio token plan or API key, another provider's key, or run local models (Ollama, vLLM).
- Source code
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- GitHub stars
- 28.6k (19 Oct 2026)
- Last verified
- 19 Oct 2026
Price from qwenlm.github.io, 19 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
- BQwen3.8-MaxAlibaba (Qwen) · closed
- BKimi K3Moonshot AI · open weights
- BQwen3.8-2.4T-A95BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- CGLM-5.3Z.ai · open weights
- CDeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813DeepSeek · open weights
- CMiniMax-M3MiniMax · open weights
- CQwen3-Coder-NextAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights