Qoder CN
The AI programming intelligent agent launched by Alibaba Cloud (formerly known as "Tongyi Lingma", officially renamed in May 2026) is officially said to provide capabilities such as intelligent code generation, intelligent R&D Q&A, multi-file modification, and programming intelligent agents, and supports free switching of various domestic large models.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Qoder CN?
Qoder CN is an AI programming agent product launched by Alibaba Cloud, formerly known as "Intelligent Coding Assistant Lingma". According to the official announcement, it was officially renamed on May 20, 2026, and the two refer to the same product. It has been upgraded from an early IDE code completion plugin to an intelligent agent for the entire software development process. Its official positioning is to "provide capabilities such as intelligent code generation, intelligent R&D Q&A, and autonomous task execution", leading a new paradigm of AI-native R&D. One point to note is that the old domain lingma.aliyun.com is still in service, and the page prompts that "Tongyi Lingma has been officially upgraded to Qoder CN".
Who is it for?
- Developers who write Java/Python/Go/TypeScript and other programming languages on a daily basis and want to boost efficiency with AI.
- R&D teams in scenarios requiring refactoring or interface development that involves "batch modification of multiple files + unit test generation".
- Financial, government, and state-owned enterprise teams that have strict requirements for no data cross-border and localization compliance, and need private deployment or exclusive version solutions.
- Individual developers who want to keep track of the evolution of domestic AI programming tools.
Key features
7Programming Agent
Officially stated to possess capabilities such as autonomous planning, automatic perception, and tool usage. It can independently decompose tasks and complete coding tasks end-to-end using tools like engineering retrieval, file editing, and terminals.
Inline Code Generation and Real-time Continuation
Supports generating line-level/function-level code based on the current file and cross-file context, with official claims of millisecond-level generation speed.
R&D Intelligent Q&A
Trained on a vast collection of R&D documents, product documents, and Alibaba Cloud service documents, it is officially claimed to answer questions and assist in troubleshooting issues.
Intelligent Troubleshooting and Repair of Issues
Combines in-project code and environment information to identify coding issues, compilation errors, and runtime errors, and provides repair suggestions.
Multi-language & Multi-editor Support
It is claimed to be compatible with mainstream tools such as VS Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains IDEs, and offers the Lingma IDE, supporting over 200 programming languages.
Domestic Models and Compliance
The official stated that the underlying layer supports free switching of domestic mainstream large models such as GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, and MiniMax, with the entire chain deployed on domestic cloud platforms. For customers in finance, government and other fields with high requirements for data security and compliance, it provides enterprise-level solutions such as exclusive versions, private domain knowledge enhancement, and exclusive VPC deployment.
Authoritative Recognition
The official website states that Alibaba Cloud is the only Chinese vendor to enter the Gartner AI Code Assistant Challenger Quadrant, and Tongyi Lingma is the only Chinese code assistant product to enter this quadrant.
How to use Qoder CN
- First, install the plugin for the IDE your team commonly uses (VS Code / JetBrains) to try out line-by-line generation and intelligent Q&A, then gradually use the programming agent to handle more complex tasks.
- For tasks involving refactoring old projects or making multiple changes, prepare the project context and specification documents before handing them over to the intelligent agent.
- The official stated that it supports retrieval augmentation of enterprise knowledge bases, making code completions more aligned with team specifications.
- The intelligent agent can autonomously execute terminal commands.
- It is recommended to make small commits under version control and review diffs in a timely manner, and avoid letting it make too large changes at one time.
- Note on billing metric changes: The official announcement states that Qoder CN has been upgraded to a Credits-based billing system.
- Existing enterprise subscriptions will continue at the original price during their contract periods.
- there was a limited-time free offer for the Personal Pro edition.
- Please refer to the official website's billing details for specific information.
- When migrating from the old version of Tongyi Lingma, the official stated that historical sessions, rules, memories, agents and code indexes will be automatically retained.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Qoder CN receives about 8.7K visits per month.
Monthly visits
12 monthsTraffic sources
- Search60.8%
- Direct25.5%
- Referrals13.1%
- AI assistants0.3%
- Display ads0.3%
Top countries
- China82.1%
- Hong Kong, China11.4%
- United States1.5%
- Taiwan, China1.0%
- Germany0.9%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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