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scosman on Aug 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I code with AI on a budget/free

The qwen coder CLI gives you 1000 free requests per day to the qwen coder model (405b). Probably the best free option right now.

faangguyindia on Aug 10, 2025 [–]

Qwen cli uses whole file edit format which is slow and burns credits fast same is issue with gemini cli.

indigodaddy on Aug 10, 2025 | [–]

Do opencode/crush also have this problem?

chrismustcode on Aug 11, 2025 | | [–]

I use opencode and never experienced it going through tokens at the speed I experienced Gemini CLI go through.

Cant speak to qwen or crush as I have not used them

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