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Alibaba (Qwen)

Qwen Code

Release date unpublished

Alibaba's open-source terminal coding agent, with a desktop app, editor plugins and SDKs, supporting Qwen, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and local models.

Interface
CLI, DESKTOP, IDE, WEB
Pricing
Bring your own key
Models
Any model
Best Terminal-Bench
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Open source
Yes
Licence
Apache License 2.0
Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Apache-2.0
  • Any third-party provider or local model (Ollama/vLLM); switch at runtime
  • Desktop app, VS Code/Zed/JetBrains plugins, TypeScript/Python/Java SDKs

Weaknesses

  • Web UI and daemon mode are experimental

releaseDate null: repo created 2025-06-26; earliest GitHub release visible is v0.0.1-alpha.14 (2025-08-01), so earlier alphas likely existed.

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