Qwen3 Coder Flash as a coding agent in your terminal
Qwen3 Coder Flash by Qwen (Alibaba), one of 250+ models you can use in Darce, the open source AI coding agent you can undo.
| Model | Qwen3 Coder Flash |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Qwen (Alibaba) |
| Model id | qwen/qwen3-coder-flash |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Price per 1M tokens | $0.20 input · $0.97 output (OpenRouter) |
| Can do | tool calling |
| Category | Fast and cheap |
Strengths
A faster, cheaper Qwen3 Coder variant with a 1M token context.
OpenRouter's description:
Qwen3 Coder Flash is Alibaba's fast and cost efficient version of their proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling...
Use Qwen3 Coder Flash as a coding agent in your terminal
Start Darce in your project with Qwen3 Coder Flash:
npm install -g darce-cli
darce --model qwen/qwen3-coder-flashAlready in a session? Type /model qwen/qwen3-coder-flash, or open the picker with Ctrl+P. Darce then reads your code, edits files and runs commands with Qwen3 Coder Flash; risky commands ask first, and /undo reverses any change, including what shell commands did. No account yet? npx darce-cli lets you try it free. Which plan includes which models is on the pricing page.
Make it your default or a gear
In ~/.darcerc, set it as the starting model or add it to the gears you move between with Shift+↑ / Shift+↓ (see configuration):
{
"router": { "default": "qwen/qwen3-coder-flash" },
"gears": ["qwen/qwen3-coder", "qwen/qwen3-coder-flash"]
}Compare it on your own code
Benchmarks rarely match your repository. Race Qwen3 Coder Flash against two other models on a real task and keep the best diff:
/derby --models qwen/qwen3-coder-flash,qwen/qwen3-coder,qwen/qwen3-coder-next fix the failing testRead more about /derby and /swarm.
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- Qwen3 Coder Next (Qwen (Alibaba)): 262k tokens, $0.12 / $0.80 per 1M tokens
- Qwen3 Coder Plus (Qwen (Alibaba)): 1M tokens, $0.65 / $3.25 per 1M tokens
- Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct (Qwen (Alibaba)): 262k tokens, $0.070 / $0.28 per 1M tokens
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic): 1M tokens, $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M tokens
- GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI): 1.05M tokens, $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M tokens
- Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google): 1.05M tokens, $0.75 / $3.75 per 1M tokens
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google): 1.05M tokens, $0.30 / $2.50 per 1M tokens
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