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With the release of Qwen 3.8 Max and it's insane 98% discount during 'off-peak' hours and 90% discount during regular hours, I decided to download Qoder to give it a go.

For reference, Qoder is essentially Antigravity, but by Alibaba and it blew my mind. Whether it's the fact that they've been throwing freebies at me since I downloaded it (100 usd worth of free SOTA 'ultimate' calls, refreshing every 2 days sofar till the 30th), or the 300 credit 'pro-trial', which goes a LOOOOONG way when you use Qwen 3.8 Max at the 98% discount. Or the fact that Lite mode is free! Like actually free, I've pushed over 20k LOC edits through it today and it hasnt even hit a fair-use cap?

I've been trying out the different platforms lately to see what's the most cost-effective, as my day-job comes with Claude Code, which is great for that, but for any personal projects, that's on my budget, with my accounts. I've been using APIs from various providers to see which is cheaper, more capable, using freebies where possible (eg. Google Startup and Azure Startup free credits) and while they work great while free, reviewing the bill afterwards is why I push them so hard... For perspective, $500 of Azure freebie money for around 50k LOC editing via OpenAI API with the model-router (discounted and routes to the cheapest model that can do the task). $150 in Google freebie money for around 20 LOC editing via Gemini 3.6 flash on Low thinking. Vs 40k LOC on $10 via Qoder (using Qwen 3.8 discounted rate), or $100 for 20k LOC via Ultimate (the expensive one).

Previously, Chinese models were 'decent', but often fell short of their western counterparts, that changed this month... Qwen and Kimi are officially better than anything in their price range, infact they punch high enough that they're the best value for twice their price range at least.

But dont take my word for it, Download Qoder and give it a try yourself. Unlike the western platforms that hide what the actual cost is till you're slapped with a bill and even then they dont actually give you clean breakdowns, Qoder is shockingly open with their free trials, showing you a detailed breakdown of what each task would have cost you. In the modern day of 'gotcha' bills because 'it takes us a while to calculate how much it costs you', Alibaba shows that it's cloak and dagger tactics to nail you with bills you cant predict. Transparent pricing and transparent usages, live. There's no excuse anymore Google and Microsoft, give us live-stats on usages.

Sorry for the poor format, lack of polish, etc. I'm knee deep in work and dont have much time to read or write, but I still wanted to put word out. If you havent downloaded Qoder yet, seriously give it a try. If you like it, you like it, if you dont, it's completely free to try.

P.S. Give the Better Loops feature a try. It's essentially a routine they built that analyzes your codebase for flaws and gives you a breakdown on it with easy to fire scoped 'quests' to fix them. They also have a 'generate wikis' routine, that's actually pretty cool. They treat documenting the codebase as codebase context which is brilliant! Instead of wasting token generating a wiki for people to read, it's actively used to prevent drift.