Code-savvy AI that builds, debugs, and explains your projects.
What is Qwen3-Coder?
Qwen3-Coder is a state-of-the-art code generation model developed by Qwen, the team behind the large language model series from Alibaba Cloud. This model is specifically fine-tuned from Qwen2.5, inheriting its robust architecture and 32K context window, to excel at understanding and generating programming code across a vast array of languages and frameworks. Its key capabilities include code completion, bug fixing, test case generation, and detailed explanations of complex code snippets, functioning effectively as an intelligent programming assistant. It primarily targets professional developers, data scientists, and engineering teams seeking to accelerate development cycles and reduce routine coding tasks. By integrating into IDEs and CI/CD pipelines, Qwen3-Coder can significantly enhance productivity, improve code quality, and streamline workflows. For teams considering different specialized coding assistants, a comparison with tools like Codeium can be useful (https://ai-plaza.io/ai/codeium). According to analyses on platforms like Hugging Face, the model demonstrates strong performance on benchmarks such as HumanEval, confirming its proficiency in practical coding scenarios.
Key Findings
- Code Generation: Creates clean, efficient code snippets from natural language prompts and comments instantly.
- Bug Detection: Identifies and suggests fixes for software errors across multiple programming languages and frameworks.
- Documentation Assistant: Automatically generates clear technical documentation from source code, saving hours of manual work.
- Project Scaffolding: Quickly sets up entire project structures with boilerplate code, configuration files, and dependencies.
- Code Refactoring: Improves existing code quality by optimizing structure, enhancing readability, and updating syntax safely.
- Real-time Collaboration: Enables multiple developers to edit and review code simultaneously within a shared workspace.
- Security Analysis: Scans code for vulnerabilities and potential security risks, providing actionable remediation advice promptly.
- API Integration: Simplifies connecting applications by generating client libraries and integration code for various APIs.
- Legacy Modernization: Helps migrate outdated codebases to modern languages and frameworks while preserving core functionality.
- Custom Training: Adapts to your specific codebase and patterns for more accurate, context-aware suggestions over time.
Who is it for?
Programmer
- Debugging legacy code
- Writing API integration scripts
- Generating data migration scripts
- Documenting complex functions
IT or DX Manager
- Evaluating new AI tools
- Planning system automation
- Creating a tech stack proposal
- Managing vendor API integration
- Training staff on new software
Startup Founder
- Building an MVP prototype
- Automating investor reports
- Parsing user feedback data
- Generating technical specifications
- Creating a simple internal tool
Pricing
Qwen3-Coder (via ZeroEval’s API) @ $0.18 per million input tokens, $0.18 per million output tokens
- Supports a context window of up to 256K tokens.
Qwen3-Coder (via DeepInfra) @ $0.00 per million input tokens
- API access available.
qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct (via Fireworks AI) @ $0.45 per 1M input tokens, $1.80 per 1M output tokens
- Supports a maximum input and output capacity of 262,144 tokens.
- Optimized for retrieval-heavy or context-rich workflows.
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (exacto) (via Qwen API) @ $0.220 per million input tokens, $0.950 per million output tokens
- Supports a context window of up to 262K tokens.
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (via OpenRouter) @ $0.22 per million input tokens, $0.95 per million output tokens
- Context window of 262,144 tokens.
- Optimized for agentic coding tasks.
Qwen3-Coder (via deepinfra) @ $0.3 per 1M input tokens, $1.2 per 1M output tokens
- Context 262144.
Cached input tokens @ $0.15 per 1M tokens.
Krater.ai Subscription (includes Qwen3 Coder Plus) @ Starting at $7.50/month
- Access to over 350 AI models.
- Simple, transparent pricing, no per-token billing surprises.
- 3 free guest messages per day available.
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus (via Kilo Code) @ $1.00 per 1M tokens
- Coding Index: 24.6.
- Speed: 48 tokens/sec.
- Free to start, pay only for AI usage.
Qwen3-Coder-Plus (via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio) @ Tiered pricing
Up to 32K input tokens @ $1 per 1M input tokens, $5 per 1M output tokens.
32K < Token ? 128K input tokens @ $1.8 per 1M input tokens, $9 per 1M output tokens.
128KB < Token ? 256KB input tokens @ $3 per 1M input tokens, $15 per 1M output tokens.
Over 256K to 1M input tokens @ $6 per 1M input tokens, $60 per 1M output tokens.
- Supports context cache, input text that hits implicit cache billed at 20% of unit price, explicit cache at 10% of unit price.
- Free quota of 1 million input tokens and 1 million output tokens for 90 days after activating Model Studio.
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct (general pricing) @ $1.50 per 1M input tokens, $7.50 per 1M output tokens
- Supports text input and output.
- 262k tokens context window.