Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码 vs vLLM
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
Alibaba's AI coding assistant — rebranded Qoder CN in May 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 8.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| 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 | Everything — Apache-2.0 code on GitHub and PyPI, official container images and docs; the project is hosted by the PyTorch Foundation and has no hosted or paid product of its own |
| 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 | — |
| Maker | Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., a division of Alibaba Group) | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
vLLM is for serving large language models at production throughput on hardware you control. Its PagedAttention algorithm manages the KV cache like paged virtual memory. Continuous batching keeps the GPU busy across concu... |
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