Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码 vs Zencoder
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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Zencoder
Repo-aware coding agents for VS Code and JetBrains
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | 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 | — |
| 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... |
Zencoder's pitch is repo comprehension: it indexes an entire codebase, cross-repo dependencies and coding conventions before it writes anything, then exposes that context through named agents for planning, coding, testin... |
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