Coding models are getting better all the time. Qwen3-Coder is a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model (35B active) with 256K context that tops the charts across multiple agentic coding benchmarks among open models. A command-line tool is also available for it and opine sourced. It has custom prompts and function calls for coding with this model.
Qwen Code is a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI. You are going to have nodejs 20+ installed to use it. Qwen Code supports the OpenAI SDK when calling LLms. It also can be used with Claude Code. This model is already available through Qwen’s chat interface.
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