Pi vs. Qwen Code

Feature	Pi	Qwen Code

Tagline	A minimal terminal coding harness	An open-source AI agent that lives in your terminal
Website	https://pi.dev	https://qwen.ai/qwencode
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	December 2, 2025	August 1, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	AI Lab
MCP Support	No	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	VS Code, Zed, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent; auto-compaction	Model dependent
Supported Models	20+ providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, OpenRouter, Groq, Ollama, xAI, Azure, Bedrock	Qwen series models, compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini APIs, including models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free (1,000 req/day)
Source Code Availability	Open Source (MIT)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono	https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code
Development State	active	active