Free Qwen Is Dead: Alibaba Shuts Down Qwen Code Free Tier
Price data by News Artificial Intelligence Free Qwen Is Dead: Alibaba Shuts Down Qwen Code Free Tier Alibaba shut down Qwen Code's free tier today, following MiniMax's license bait-and-switch. The idea that Chinese labs...
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Kripto dünyasındaki son gelişmelere göre, Price data by News Artificial Intelligence Free Qwen Is Dead: Alibaba Shuts Down Qwen Code Free Tier Alibaba shut down Qwen Code's free tier today, following MiniMax's license bait-and-switch. The idea that Chinese labs are the "open-source good guys" is crumbling fast. By Jose Antonio Lanz Edited by Guillermo Jimenez Apr 15, 2026 Apr 15, 2026 2 min read Alibaba's Qwen AI.
Image: Shutterstock/ Create an account to save your articles. Add on Google Add as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In brief Alibaba shut down the free tier of Qwen Code.
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Users are directed to check third-party providers like OpenRouter. Recently, Minimax also changed its license from open source to open weights, with conditions for commercial use. Alibaba's Qwen Code killed its free tier today.
The message in the GitHub repo doesn't mince words: "Qwen OAuth free tier has been discontinued. " Alibaba also reduced the 1,000 free requests quota to 100 per day. Users wanting to run Qwen code on the cloud are now directed to check Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan, OpenRouter, Fireworks AI, or bring their own API key.
Qwen Code wasn't a hobby project. It was Alibaba's terminal coding agent—a direct Claude Code rival running Qwen3-Coder models, with multi-file repository support and SWE-Bench (a benchmark that measures how good a model is at coding) scores competitive with the best paid tools on the market. If you're just finding out now, you missed the GitHub changelog.
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The Coding Plan Pro subscription runs $50 a month. This landed 48 hours after fellow Chinese AI company MiniMax pulled almost the same move. The Chinese lab dropped M2.
7—a 230 billion-parameter model that nearly matches Claude Opus 4. 6 on coding benchmarks—then immediately rewrote the license to require written authorization for commercial use. Parameters are what determine an AI's capacity to learn, reason, and store information.
The more parameters, the wider the model's breadth of knowledge. The model launched under what MiniMax called "MIT-style" terms. MIT licenses don't restrict commercial use.
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