Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
Alibaba's AI coding assistant — rebranded Qoder CN in May 2026
Overview
Alibaba Cloud's AI coding assistant, rebranded Qoder CN in May 2026 — completion, repo-aware chat and agentic multi-file edits across VS Code, JetBrains and Chinese-domestic IDEs, backed by Qwen coder models. Free Community tier; credit-metered Pro at ¥59/mo, enterprise from ¥99/seat.
Pricing
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- Code completion
- Limited monthly usage
- 2,000 credits/mo
- Credits pool across IDE, plugin, CLI, mobile
- Agentic multi-file edits
- 3,000 credits/seat/mo
- Admin controls
- Min 1 seat
- 3,000 credits/seat/mo
- VPC deployment
- Min 50 seats
Use cases
What you can produce with Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
- Generate multi-file code edits autonomously using Agent Mode, where the tool decomposes a task description into sub-steps, edits multiple source files across a project, and dynamically adjusts based on intermediate results.
- Get real-time inline code completions for 12 officially documented mainstream languages (Java, Python, Go, C#, C/C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Kotlin) with suggestions drawn from local codebase context.
- Conduct in-IDE chat Q&A to explain unfamiliar code, debug errors, and get documentation for functions — entirely in Chinese or English — without leaving VS Code or JetBrains.
- Auto-generate unit tests for existing functions using the built-in test generation feature, reducing manual test-writing effort according to Alibaba Cloud's own published benchmarks.
- Ask natural-language questions about a private enterprise codebase using the Enterprise Dedicated Edition's codebase-enhanced Q&A and private knowledge base integration, with data processed in a dedicated private environment.
- Build a complete web feature end-to-end — front-end and back-end — within a single IDE session using the AI Programmer mode, collapsing tasks that previously required multiple developer roles.
- Review and refactor legacy code with inline comment generation, error diagnostics, and optimization suggestions surfaced directly in VS Code or JetBrains without leaving the editor.
ASEAN Perspective
Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码 in Southeast Asia
中国市场是 GitHub Copilot 的国产替代主力之一，与百度 Comate、字节 MarsCode 形成三方竞争。
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 over: a capped Community tier remains, Pro costs ¥59/month for 2,000 credits, and enterprise seats rose to ¥99–199/month. The product itself is solid — completion, repo-aware chat, multi-file agentic edits, Qwen coder models underneath, and credits that pool across the IDE, JetBrains plugin, CLI and mobile. It remains the default choice inside the Alibaba Cloud ecosystem and for Mandarin-first teams. Documentation and support still center on China, and at ¥59/month it now competes head-on with Copilot and Cursor instead of undercutting them. ASEAN developers outside the Qwen ecosystem will find English-first rivals better supported.
What people say
May 20, 2026 was the day the free ride ended. Alibaba retired the Tongyi Lingma brand, relaunched the assistant as Qoder CN inside its Qoder agentic-coding line, and switched to credit-metered pricing the same evening. Individuals keep a capped free Community edition; the Pro tier costs ¥59/month for 2,000 credits. Enterprise seats rose from ¥79 to ¥99/month, and the on-premises edition — renamed the VPC version — went from ¥159 to ¥199 per seat with a 50-seat minimum. Subscriptions bought before the cutover run at old prices until they expire.
Chinese developer forums took the news about how you'd expect — CSDN posts ran under headlines amounting to "not just a rename, it charges now." The resentment is less about the tool than about losing the unusually generous free tier that drove its adoption. The counterweight arrived June 20, 2026: one subscription's credits now pool across the desktop IDE, the JetBrains plugin, QoderWork, the CLI and mobile, which is decent value if you live in several of those surfaces.
As a product it's still the strongest domestic option for Mandarin-first teams: completion, repo-aware chat, agentic multi-file edits, Qwen coder models underneath, plus support for Chinese-domestic IDEs that Western tools skip. But documentation and support remain China-centered, and ¥59/month is no longer an undercut — it's the same shelf as Copilot's and Cursor's entry plans, where the English-first rivals bring better docs, bigger communities and far more third-party benchmark coverage.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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