Qwen Code vs OpenAI Codex CLI

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

	Qwen Code Alibaba's free, open-source terminal coding agent, Gemini CLI fork Visit	OpenAI Codex CLI OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent, now on GPT-5.3-Codex. Visit
RECATOOLS Score	7.7 / 10	8.2 / 10
Capability	8	8.5
Value for money	9	7.5
Ease of use	6	7.5
ASEAN readiness	7	6.5
API quality	7	8
Pricing	Open Source	Freemium
Free tier	—	—
Paid from	—	—
Has API	✓	✓
Open source	✓	✓
Free to use	✓	✓
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Verdict	Qwen Code is what you'd expect from an open-source fork of Gemini CLI retooled for Qwen3-Coder: the same terminal-first workflow and project-context system, now provider-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Alib...	Codex CLI has scaled into a real Claude Code rival: OpenAI's repo sits at roughly 97,000 GitHub stars and the tool now ships baked into every ChatGPT tier, including Free. Reddit sentiment leans toward Codex for token ef...
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