Qwen Code vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs OpenCode vs Kilo Code

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	OpenCode Free, open-source terminal coding agent with 75+ model providers Visit	Kilo Code Open-source coding agent with 500+ models and zero-markup BYOK Visit
RECATOOLS Score	7.7 / 10	8.2 / 10	7.9 / 10	7.4 / 10
Capability	8	8.5	7.5	7
Value for money	9	7.5	8.5	8
Ease of use	6	7.5	7.5	7
ASEAN readiness	7	6.5	6.5	6
API quality	7	8	7.5	6
Pricing	Open Source	Freemium	Open Source	Open Source
Free tier	—	—	—	—
Paid from	—	—	—	—
Has API	✓	✓	✓	✓
Open source	✓	✓	✓	✓
Free to use	✓	✓	✓	✓
Users	—	—	—	—
Founded	—	—	—	—
Maker	—	—	—	—
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...	OpenCode has become the default open-source answer to Claude Code — MIT-licensed, provider-agnostic, and reportedly past 160,000 GitHub stars with millions of monthly users. Plan mode (reason before you let it write) and...	Kilo Code's lineage — forked from Roo Code, which forked Cline, in March 2025 — shows in how fast it's matured: Reddit's r/kilocode describes it as "Cursor but open and free," and by mid-2026 it had crossed 3 million dow...
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