Wait so Alibaba Qwen has just released ANOTHER model??
Qwen3-Coder is simply one of the best coding model we've ever seen.
→ Still 100% open source
→ Up to 1M context window 🔥
→ 35B active parameters
→ Same performance as Sonnet 4
They're releasing a CLI tool as well ↓
You can use the model for free on Qwen Chat:
1. Create a free account
2. Select Qwen3-Coder in the list
3. You can also upload files (codebase)
Qwen-code is a CLI tool for agentic coding:
→ Forked from Gemini Code
→ Includes custom prompts and proper function call protocols
→ GitHub link: https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code
Some useful links:
- Qwen3-Coder on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
- Official blog post: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3-coder/
Here are 2 (quite impressive) examples generated with Qwen3-Coder.
1. A 🔗edIn clone
As you can see the model is REALLY good when it comes to generating UIs.
2. Asteroid Simulator
Something a bit more 'basic', but still amazing to see that Qwen3-Coder was able to generate:
- The sliders/parameters
- The impact and particles
- Import Three js and use it first try
Comparison between Qwen3-Coder and other models on SWE Bench.
Key insights:
- Same score as Sonnet 4
- Very powerful for its size
- Better than virtually all proprietary models
- Probably much cheaper
Open source is winning!
