{"slug": "qwen-3-7", "name": "Qwen 3.7", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 3.594, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-06-03", "latest": "2026-08-16", "why": "Please do yourself a favour and check out GLM-5.2, Qwen-3.7-Max, MiMo-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Please do yourself a favour and check out GLM-5.2, Qwen-3.7-Max, MiMo-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Qwen-3.7-Max", "Qwen 3.7", "Qwen 3.7 Plus", "Qwen3.7 Plus", "Qwen 3.7 Max", "Qwen3.7"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 777998161, "item_id": 48624885, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624885", "by": "tonfreed", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if I can clearly articulate a test suite or boilerplate refactoring it works fine.", "excerpt": "Even just one of the smaller models is good enough for the grunt work I use them for 90% of the time. Currently doing most of my home hobby projects with OpenCode Go and Qwen 3.7 Plus, it's not great at diagnosing issues in the code, but if I can clearly articulate a test suite or boilerplate refactoring it works fine.", "context": "Hobby projects", "use_case": "test suites and refactoring", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 777992033, "item_id": 48624502, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624502", "by": "trollbridge", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Please do yourself a favour and check out GLM-5.2, Qwen-3.7-Max, MiMo-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro.", "excerpt": "Please do yourself a favour and check out GLM-5.2, Qwen-3.7-Max, MiMo-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro. And then for stuff that you already said you were able to use Mistral for... Qwen-3.6 (option to run locally), MiMo-2.5, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, or... many, many other models to choose from too.", "context": "", "use_case": "alternative to Claude Opus", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8"}, {"id": 776060082, "item_id": 48503755, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503755", "by": "freigeist79", "date": "2026-06-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's really much better than i expected (used to opus 4.7 at work)", "excerpt": "i use github copilot cli + openrouter + qwen 3.7 max and it's really much better than i expected (used to opus 4.7 at work)", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"}, {"id": 776056531, "item_id": 48503533, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503533", "by": "trollbridge", "date": "2026-06-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "use Qwen-3.7-Max for design/plan/architecture or difficult troubleshooting.", "excerpt": "I am extremely happy with ohmypi, but you could use OpenCode or just keep using Claude Code! DeepSeek-V4-Pro is adequate plus use DS4-Flash for tasks or other small activity you\u2019d use Haiku or Sonnet for. Go sign up with $10 prepaid. OpenCode Go - go sign up with $5 for a month and use Qwen-3.7-Max for design/plan/architecture or difficult troubleshooting. Feels closer to Opus 3.6 or 3.7 than DeepSeek, closest I\u2019ve f", "context": "leads a team of 3 developers, 1 designer, 1 non-technical user", "use_case": "design, planning, troubleshooting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "tonfreed", "context": "Hobby projects", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624885", "date": "2026-06-21"}, {"by": "trollbridge", "context": "leads a team of 3 developers, 1 designer, 1 non-technical user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503533", "date": "2026-06-12"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["local coding model", "testing prompt compliance", "test suites and refactoring", "alternative to claude opus", "ai coding", "design, planning, troubleshooting"], "compared": [{"slug": "qwen-3-6", "name": "Qwen 3.6", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "deepseek", "name": "DeepSeek", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "glm", "name": "GLM", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "mimo", "name": "MiMo", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502347", "title": "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314902", "title": "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979269", "title": "American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622518", "title": "item 48622518", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618455", "title": "Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374466", "title": "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 3}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 789163361, "item_id": 49322710, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322710", "by": "tingletech", "date": "2026-08-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'm mostly using Qwen3.6 (now Qwen3.7) running on my DGX Spark in llama.cpp", "excerpt": "> If I don't have a fully kitted out test suit and a good type checker to verify the final product against I have a template I use with generated python projects that sets up all the test info first. https://github.com/brian-learns/testafize I start the coding session in a directory where I've already set this up and maybe drafted a README.md, and usually it just automatically starts running the `make check` without ", "context": "", "use_case": "local coding model", "switched_from": "Qwen3.6", "story": "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"}, {"id": 783691843, "item_id": 48980740, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980740", "by": "Jefff", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "all 4 managed to produce correct functions all with the correct name.", "excerpt": "OK, I'll bite. I tried Kimi K3, Qwen3.6 35B A3B, GLM 5.2 and Qwen3.7 Plus, chosen arbitrarily from Chinese models I could access quickly. I used your prompt exactly, and all 4 managed to produce correct functions all with the correct name. Interestingly, Kimi K3 wrote one in both C and Python, Qwen 3.6 chose Python, GLM 5.2 also chose Python, and Qwen3.7 decided to be an over-achiever and wrote functions in Python, C", "context": "", "use_case": "testing prompt compliance", "switched_from": "", "story": "American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing"}, {"id": 777998161, "item_id": 48624885, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624885", "by": "tonfreed", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if I can clearly articulate a test suite or boilerplate refactoring it works fine.", "excerpt": "Even just one of the smaller models is good enough for the grunt work I use them for 90% of the time. Currently doing most of my home hobby projects with OpenCode Go and Qwen 3.7 Plus, it's not great at diagnosing issues in the code, but if I can clearly articulate a test suite or boilerplate refactoring it works fine.", "context": "Hobby projects", "use_case": "test suites and refactoring", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 777992033, "item_id": 48624502, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624502", "by": "trollbridge", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Please do yourself a favour and check out GLM-5.2, Qwen-3.7-Max, MiMo-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro.", "excerpt": "Please do yourself a favour and check out GLM-5.2, Qwen-3.7-Max, MiMo-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro. And then for stuff that you already said you were able to use Mistral for... Qwen-3.6 (option to run locally), MiMo-2.5, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, or... many, many other models to choose from too.", "context": "", "use_case": "alternative to Claude Opus", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8"}, {"id": 776060082, "item_id": 48503755, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503755", "by": "freigeist79", "date": "2026-06-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's really much better than i expected (used to opus 4.7 at work)", "excerpt": "i use github copilot cli + openrouter + qwen 3.7 max and it's really much better than i expected (used to opus 4.7 at work)", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"}, {"id": 776056531, "item_id": 48503533, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503533", "by": "trollbridge", "date": "2026-06-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "use Qwen-3.7-Max for design/plan/architecture or difficult troubleshooting.", "excerpt": "I am extremely happy with ohmypi, but you could use OpenCode or just keep using Claude Code! DeepSeek-V4-Pro is adequate plus use DS4-Flash for tasks or other small activity you\u2019d use Haiku or Sonnet for. Go sign up with $10 prepaid. OpenCode Go - go sign up with $5 for a month and use Qwen-3.7-Max for design/plan/architecture or difficult troubleshooting. Feels closer to Opus 3.6 or 3.7 than DeepSeek, closest I\u2019ve f", "context": "leads a team of 3 developers, 1 designer, 1 non-technical user", "use_case": "design, planning, troubleshooting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"}, {"id": 774116291, "item_id": 48382268, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382268", "by": "ignoramous", "date": "2026-06-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "switch between DeepSeek v4, GLM 5.1, and Qwen 3.7 models", "excerpt": "> Any concerns as far as privacy or data protection? We moved to OpenCode Go ($10/mo), so we could switch between DeepSeek v4, GLM 5.1, and Qwen 3.7 models run by providers in EU, US, & Singapore that OpenCode FAQ claims don't use retained data for training. What about data and privacy? The [OpenCode Go] plan is designed primarily for international users, with models hosted in the US, EU, and Singapore for stable glo", "context": "", "use_case": "coding via OpenCode Go", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params"}]}