An open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, editors and desktop, from the Qwen team.
Sources and review #
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A Claude Code-style terminal agent that works well with open-weight Qwen models or local inference.
About Qwen Code #
Qwen Code is the Qwen team's open-source coding agent for the terminal, with IDE plugins, a desktop app, a web UI, SDKs and chat integrations. It includes auto-memory, auto-skills, subagents, agent teams and MCP, and supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Qwen APIs, third-party providers and local models through Ollama or vLLM, switchable at runtime.
Qwen Code is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 28k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
npm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code@latest
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Qwen Code vs. the alternatives #
| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen Codethis listing | 28k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| OpenCode | 211k | — | MIT | Open source |
| gemini-cli | 107k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| Zed | 91k | Rust | GPL-3.0-or-later | Open source |
| OpenHands | 89k | — | MIT | Open source |
| Cline | 69k | — | Apache-2.0 | Open source |