Qwen Code
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
0warn against
Nov 11, 2025first mention
Oct 8, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I made this 3D game in a day on the same setup with Qwen Code as agent”
“I have been using the qwen-code harness though”
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“it was powerful enough to complete 95% of a small hobby project”
“Together with Qwen Code (fork of Gemini) it is actually pretty capable.”
“Qwen CLI is a great alternative if you want an OpenAI-compatible API with a generous free tier”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Also written as Qwen CLI. Data: qwen-code.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“using Qwen Code as agent”
“I made this 3D game in a day on the same setup with Qwen Code as agent”
“I used Qwen together with Qwen Code.”
“For Qwen I used Qwen Code”
“it often fails during `write_file` tool calls, even with Qwen Code.”
“I have been using the qwen-code harness though”
“planning to switch to Qwen Code with subscription.”
“it was powerful enough to complete 95% of a small hobby project”
“Qwen Code CLI (a fork of Gemini CLI)”
“Together with Qwen Code (fork of Gemini) it is actually pretty capable.”
“Qwen CLI is a great alternative if you want an OpenAI-compatible API with a generous free tier”
“Built on top of Gemini/Qwen CLI to leverage their native tool-use capabilities”
“it does most of what I want”