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Qwen Code

An open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, editors and desktop, from the Qwen team.

Sources and review

Checked against public documentation on September 23, 2026. Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.

Best for

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.

Install

npm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code@latest

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