How to use Claude Code with Qwen3 Coder

Alibaba team has recently released Qwen3-Coder which claims to do better in coding. Based on the benchmark it is in the range of Claude 4 in term of accuracy.

Let’s see how to use this model with Claude Code.

First, you’ll need to get API key from  Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

If you don’t have claude code installed in your machine before then install it

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

Once you’ve that, then set these in env variables

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/api/v2/apps/claude-code-proxy
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=your-api-key

That’s pretty much it. You should be using Claude Code with Qwen3-Coder.

References

Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World | Qwen

Happy terminal coding!