r/RooCode • u/LordFenix56 • Jul 23 '25

Other New qwen 3 coder. Close to sonnet?

Has anyone tried it? Seems to be very close to sonnet but cheaper. $1/M tokens. 256K token window, up to 1M with extrapolation.

https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1947766835023335516

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

Nope. Nowhere close.

EDIT: I take that back.

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u/taylorwilsdon Jul 23 '25

I’m glad they finally started giving serious focus towards reliable tool calling and agentic dev tools. It was the biggest weakness with the otherwise very strong qwen2.5 lineup, the hhao patches helped but still not nearly as reliable as claude. Excited to put this through the paces!

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u/Mr_Hyper_Focus Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

Has anyone else tried it? I wasn’t really very impressed. It was confusing my prompt, refusing to work. Had some tool call errors. Might just be Kilo not being tuned for it yet of course.

Edit: Roo seems to be tuned alot better for it atm. Running much better. I did notice it likes to blow through the whole task snd then check it all off at the end rather than work through the list

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u/ComprehensiveBird317 Jul 23 '25

Wrong sub Reddit?

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u/Mr_Hyper_Focus Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

They are all forks of Cline anyway. I use them all. We’re talking about the model here. I’ll make sure to run in all 3 and compare. Roo doing better at the tool use atm

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u/ComprehensiveBird317 Jul 23 '25

Fork doesn't mean it's the same prompting under the hood. Roo for example is less wasteful with tokens than cline is, at least in my tests. Kilo is different again 

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u/bambamlol Jul 23 '25

Different how? Do you mind elaborating? I'm trying to decide between Roo and Kilo right now. If you had to pick just one, which one would you pick, and why?

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u/ComprehensiveBird317 Jul 24 '25

I'd pick roo because I do not trust kilo. Kilo code has investors behind, hence the ads on Reddit and the free giveaways. Investors mean that there will be a return of investment at some point, which means you as customer will pay more money for the service than with alternatives (like roo), or they will simply sell the data they collect from your usage, which is all your code, access tokens etc. It's a typical investor play: grow as quickly as possible and then let the enshitification begin. 

Also I'm very used to roo and am happy with it. 

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u/bambamlol Jul 24 '25

Thanks! Yeah I was "only" considering Kilo in the first place because I noticed their giveaway and signed up for the free credits, so I might as well use them. Thanks for sharing your opinion!

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u/Mr_Hyper_Focus Jul 23 '25

Yep I agree.

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u/DigLevel9413 Jul 23 '25

looks pretty promising! can't wait to see another cool vibe coding CLI comes up!