Qwen 3 Coder Next: what 48 developers actually say.
48 Hacker News opinions from 40 developers, Nov 2025 – Nov 2026. 39 come from people who say they use it. Here is what they praise, what they complain about, and who switched.
The case for Qwen 3 Coder Next, in one paragraph.
Qwen 3 Coder Next earns 72% approval across 48 opinions. Developers praise its code quality.
Pick it if you
- Want to run a coding model on your own hardware
- Care about fast responses and local privacy
- Need a cheap fallback for basic coding or agent work
Look elsewhere if you
- Need reliable behavior in long sessions
- Depend on strong tool calling and reasoning
- Need top-end code quality and edge-case coverage
Where it wins and loses.
Mentions across 48 opinions. Bars are counts, not votes; a tool can be both praised and criticized on the same topic.
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| Topic | Praise | Complaints | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Code quality | 13 | 7 | 20 |
How opinion has moved.
Monthly approval, Feb 2026 – Jul 2026. Bars show opinion volume; low-volume months are still included but faded.
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| Month | Approval | Opinions |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | 96% | 14 |
| Mar 2026 | 61% | 14 |
| Apr 2026 | 57% | 7 |
| May 2026 | 75% | 4 |
| Jun 2026 | 38% | 4 |
| Jul 2026 | 83% | 3 |
What developers say.
Summaries are paraphrased. Each links to the original Hacker News comment.
Praise
4 selectedQwen 3 Coder Next responds in under a minute after warmup when run on a GPU.
Runs Qwen3-Coder-Next locally on a 128GB desktop for just electricity cost; slower, but worth it.
Qwen 3 Coder Next runs well locally at about 35 tokens per second for their team.
Uses Qwen3-coder-next in OpenCode for everything and sees no need to switch models.
Complaints
4 selectedQwen3 Coder Next kept looping while analyzing a decompiled app, possibly due to their prompt.
Qwen 3 Coder Next hallucinates on their local agentic tasks.
Does not find the 80B Qwen3 Coder Next much better at coding than the smaller model.
Qwen 3 Coder Next was not very successful for them after being recommended it.
Questions developers ask.
Is Qwen 3 Coder Next worth it?
Is Qwen 3 Coder Next better than Claude Code?
Can Qwen 3 Coder Next run locally?
The data behind this page.
Opinions on Qwen 3 Coder Next sit at 72% approval across 48 opinions from 40 authors, with 39 opinions firsthand. Speed is the strongest aspect at 12 positive and 0 negative, and local or private use adds 7 positive and 0 negative. Code quality is contested at 13 positive and 7 negative, while reliability is weak at 1 positive and 2 negative. Monthly approval has been volatile, from 38% in June to 83% in July, 50% in August, and 100% in October, but the final three months with data have only 3, 1, and 1 opinions.
Every number comes from public Hacker News comments collected through the HN Search API. A language model tagged each comment for sentiment, first-hand use, topic and switches; a human spot-checks samples. No vendor can pay for placement.
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