Qwen Code

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public

core features withheld

no — the tree at 0df419d carries one root Apache-2.0 LICENSE, Apache-2.0 or MIT files in a few packages, and no ee/, enterprise/, commercial/ or proprietary/ path. The paid options the project's terms list are model access through a Qwen account or an Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan key

Qwen Code is released under Apache-2.0, and its public repository holds the whole agent along with its SDKs, so it builds and runs from published source. The project calls itself an open-source tool, and signing in with a Qwen account or an Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan key pays for model access rather than for any part of the agent.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/main/docs/users/support/tos-privacy.md recorded 2026-10-19

  The terms page says "Qwen Code is an open-source AI coding assistant tool maintained by the Qwen Code team" and lists four ways to reach models: Qwen OAuth ("free tier discontinued 2026-04-15"), Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan, your own API key, and Vertex AI.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-19

  The root LICENSE is the Apache License, Version 2.0 text, with an appendix notice reading "Copyright 2025 Google LLC" and "Copyright 2025 Qwen".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-19

  The README calls the project "The open-source AI coding agent for your terminal, editor, desktop, browser, and chat", says "Open-source, inside and out", and links TypeScript, Python and Java SDKs under packages/; no paid tier, enterprise edition or license key is mentioned.

• https://registry.npmjs.org/@qwen-code/qwen-code/latest recorded 2026-10-19

  The npm record for @qwen-code/qwen-code 0.25.2 names the repository git+https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code.git and the qwen command, published from GitHub Actions with SLSA provenance; it carries no license field.

Adoption is the trailing month of npm downloads of @qwen-code/qwen-code, the package that is the CLI itself, and the Homebrew package installs the same npm tarball. The README leads with a standalone installer that fetches a prebuilt archive from Alibaba Cloud storage or GitHub releases and falls back to the npmmirror registry. None of those installs reach the npm count, so the figure is a lower bound on use.

• https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-month/@qwen-code/qwen-code recorded 2026-10-19

  320,024 downloads of @qwen-code/qwen-code between 2026-09-17 and 2026-10-16

• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/qwen-code.json recorded 2026-10-19

  Homebrew's qwen-code package installs from https://registry.npmjs.org/@qwen-code/qwen-code/-/qwen-code-0.25.2.tgz and reports 3,987 installs in 30 days.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/main/scripts/installation/install-qwen-standalone.sh recorded 2026-10-19

  The repository copy of the README's installer "Installs Qwen Code from a standalone archive when available, with npm fallback", with "Mirror: auto, github, or aliyun" and an npm registry default of https://registry.npmmirror.com.

• https://registry.npmjs.org/@qwen-code/qwen-code/latest recorded 2026-10-19

  The npm record for @qwen-code/qwen-code 0.25.2 installs the qwen command and has no runtime dependencies, only optional platform helpers.

Qwen Code covers the same ground as OpenHands and as Gemini CLI, the agent it was forked from, with sub-agents and agent teams, MCP, plan mode, a sandbox, computer use and many model providers, plus editor, desktop, web and chat front ends and SDKs in three languages. Its SWE-bench Verified results come from the Qwen Code team running its own model rather than from an independent board, the same limit that applies to the scores OpenHands publishes.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/main/docs/evaluation.md recorded 2026-10-19

  The evaluation page compares seven Qwen Code versions on SWE-bench Verified "using the same Qwen 3.7 Max model and configuration", with average scores from 76.40% to 77.80% over 500 cases and three trials per version.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-19

  The README's feature table checks "SubAgents, Agent Teams, Dynamic Workflows", "MCP, Plan Mode, LSP Integration", "Auto Mode, Sandbox, Git Worktrees" and "Computer Use (desktop automation)", and lists "Multi-protocol — Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Qwen APIs", a headless mode, a qwen serve daemon and three SDKs.