Tool
Qwen Code
Alibaba/Qwen terminal coding agent (Qwen Code / Qwen CLI) for agentic coding with Qwen models and multi-agent workflows
About
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
Features
- Qwen-model terminal coding harness
- Pricing
- Open Source
- Pricing detail
- Free; model API or local Qwen serving
- Platforms
- CLI
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