CodeFuse 蚂蚁CodeFuse vs Helicone vs Opik vs Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

CodeFuse 蚂蚁CodeFuse Ant Group's AI coding assistant Visit Helicone LLM observability via drop-in proxy Visit Opik Open-source LLM tracing, evals and guardrails you can self-host Visit Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码 Alibaba's AI coding assistant — rebranded Qoder CN in May 2026 Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.4 / 10 7.6 / 10 7.8 / 10 6.4 / 10
Capability 7 7 8 7
Value for money 8 8 8.5 8
Ease of use 4 8 7.5 7
ASEAN readiness 5 6 6.5 4
API quality 5 8 8 4
Pricing Open Source Open Source Open Source Freemium
Free tier Permanently free Individual Edition (no Agent turn cap); Individual Pro Edition is free during a limited preview period and includes up to 50 Agent conversation turns per month
Paid from USD 32/user/month (Enterprise Dedicated Edition, minimum 100 users)
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users Over 13 million plugin downloads total by May 2025 (was 9 million by January 2025)
Founded 2023 2023 2023
Maker Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., a division of Alibaba Group)
Verdict

CodeFuse is Ant Group's open-source family of code LLMs and agent frameworks (including DevOps-ChatBot and muAgent) aimed at the full software lifecycle, from requirements through coding, testing and operations. Its rele...

Helicone is a developer-focused observability platform for LLM apps, providing request logging, tracing, cost and latency tracking, caching, and prompt management with a one-line proxy or async integration. It is open-so...

Opik is the rare open-source LLM observability tool where the free self-hosted version isn't a stripped-down teaser — Comet's own docs describe it as the same codebase as the hosted product. Tracing, LLM-as-a-judge evalu...

This is now Qoder CN — Alibaba retired the Tongyi Lingma name on May 20, 2026 and folded the assistant into its Qoder agentic-coding line, with credit-metered pricing arriving the same day. The free-for-everyone era is o...

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