Alibaba Cloud model family with strong open-weight coding options. Qwen’s coding models on Kilo Code include Qwen3.6 Plus, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B, Qwen3 Coder Next, and Qwen3 Coder Plus. Use them across VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, and the Kilo CLI — with pay-as-you-go pricing and no markup over the underlying provider rates.
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Qwen 3.6 Plus builds on a hybrid architecture that combines efficient linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing, enabling strong scalability and high-performance inference. Compared to the 3.5 series, it delivers...
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Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over...
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Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model optimized for coding agents and local development workflows. It uses a sparse MoE design with 80B total parameters and only 3B activated per...
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Qwen3 Coder Plus is Alibaba's proprietary version of the Open Source Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling and...
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Qwen3.7-Max is the flagship model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series. It supports text input and output and is designed for agent-centric workloads, with particular strengths in coding, office and productivity tasks,...
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Qwen3.7-Plus is a cost-effective model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series. It supports text and image input with text output, building on the series' text capabilities with a comprehensive upgrade to its...
Qwen is Alibaba Cloud’s model family, known for fast iteration across dense, MoE, coder, math, and multimodal releases. The coding lineup usually pairs specialist Qwen Coder models with larger general Qwen releases, giving developers a wide spread of open-weight and hosted choices for cost-sensitive agent workflows.
Pay-as-you-go, no markup over the underlying provider rates. Cheapest first.
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Coding index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next | $0.110 | $0.800 | 262K | — |
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus (20% off) | $0.320 | $1.28 | 1000K | — |
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1000K | 54.5 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus | $1.00 | $5.00 | 1000K | — |
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max (50% off) | $1.25 | $3.75 | 1000K | — |
| Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | $1.50 | $7.50 | 1049K | — |
Three ways: hosted in Kilo, locally on your hardware, or through your own provider keys.
The fastest path: install Kilo Code, sign in, pick qwen from the model picker. No API keys, no markup. Works in VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, and the Kilo CLI.
See live model leaderboard →Already have an account with Qwen, OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Together AI, or another compatible provider? Plug your key into Kilo Code and keep your existing billing relationship.
BYOK setup guide →Download Qwen open weights from Hugging Face and serve them with Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, or SGLang. Connect Kilo Code to your local OpenAI-compatible endpoint and keep all prompts on hardware you control.
Local setup guide →See coding-model lineups from Qwen’s closest competitors.
Qwen’s flagship is among the strongest coding models on the Kilo Code leaderboard, ranked by Code, Plan, Ask, Debug, and Review usage.
VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, RubyMine, Android Studio), and the Kilo CLI / terminal.
Switch between Qwen and 500+ other models with one click. Pay only for what you use, at the underlying provider rate.
Use the highest-ranked Qwen Coder or latest Qwen flagship for difficult software engineering. Smaller Qwen variants are useful for cheap high-volume edits and sub-agent tasks.
Qwen models work in all Kilo-supported IDEs and the Kilo CLI, and open-weight variants can also run through local OpenAI-compatible runtimes.
Qwen model pricing varies widely by size and provider. Kilo Code displays the current input and output token rates with no markup.
Mixed. Many Qwen models are published as open weights, while some hosted variants are API-only depending on the provider.
Qwen Coder models are tuned for software engineering, while general Qwen flagships emphasize broader reasoning and multilingual capability. Plus, Max, and flash-style variants trade accuracy, speed, and cost.
Qwen models work in all Kilo-supported IDEs and the Kilo CLI, and open-weight variants can also run through local OpenAI-compatible runtimes.
Install Kilo Code and get instant access to Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus and 5 other Qwen models, plus 500+ frontier and open-source options. Free to start, no credit card required.