Qwen Code
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A terminal coding agent from the Qwen team (Alibaba): grew from a Gemini CLI fork into its own branch, and connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Qwen APIs. Open under Apache 2.0; free OAuth access was closed on 15.04.2026.
Facts
- A fork of Google Gemini CLI v0.8.2; starting with Qwen Code v0.1, the vendor stopped syncing with upstream and develops it independently (QwenLM/qwen-code README, snapshot Aug 19, 2026).
- The free Qwen OAuth plan (2,000 requests per day, 60 per minute, a 1 million-token context window) was discontinued on 04/15/2026; the vendor directs users to the Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan or third-party providers (issue #3203 QwenLM/qwen-code).
- Apache 2.0 license, Node.js 22+ required; the QwenLM/qwen-code repository has 27,186 stars, with the last push on Aug 19, 2026 (GitHub API).
- Claimed features as of Aug 19, 2026: multi-protocol support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Qwen APIs, plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, and Zed, daemon mode for multiple clients, a desktop app, SDKs for TypeScript, Python, and Java, bots for Telegram, WeChat, DingTalk, and Feishu (docs qwen-code).
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