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Qoder

Alibaba's standalone agentic IDE with project-wide context and a Quest Mode.

Category
IDE
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Local
Platforms
macOSWindows
Models
Multi-model
Verified
Jun 15, 2026

An AI-first desktop IDE from Alibaba built around agentic coding rather than autocomplete. It indexes a whole project to reason over dependencies and architecture, offers a conversational Agent Mode for pair programming, and a Quest Mode that takes a written spec, plans the work, and produces tested, production-ready code end to end. A Repo Wiki keeps long-lived context across sessions.

Pros & cons

  • Free unlimited completions and edits
  • Project-wide context via Repo Wiki
  • Autonomous Quest Mode
  • Backed by Alibaba's Qwen models
  • Credit limits on chat and agent use
  • Pricing still finalizing post-preview
  • Smaller ecosystem than Cursor

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