The domestic alternative to Claude Code has finally arrived, friends. I saw it this morning and immediately installed it to try it out. The setup is simple, the speed is fast, and it won't get your account banned; it's a great experience. Although Qwen Code is a secondary development based on Gemini CLI, it has adapted the prompt and tool calling protocols, maximizing the performance of Qwen3-Coder in Agentic Coding tasks.

The installation method is very simple: Make sure you have Node.js version 20 or above installed. You can install it using the following command: curl -qL | sh Then, install Qwen Code using the npm package manager: npm i -g @qwen-code/qwen-code Qwen Code supports OpenAI SDK calls to LLM. You can export the following environment variables or simply place them in a .env file. export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_api_key_here" export OPENAI_BASE_URL=" export OPENAI_MODEL="qwen3-coder-plus" You can find these variables in Alibaba Cloud's Bai Lian. Now, you can enjoy the programming experience brought by Qwen-Code and Qwen by simply typing qwen.