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TaglineAlibaba's open chat model. Multilingual + agentic.VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.The one that actually gets text in images right.Spreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.
CategoryChatbotsCodingImageData
PricingFree web + APIFree + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo BusinessFree + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/moFree + $19-$89/user/mo
Best forVietnamese/Chinese content, SEA multilingual use, developers wanting open-weight tool-use.Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks.Ops teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources.
Strengths
  • Excellent Chinese + Vietnamese + SEA languages
  • Strong at tool-use + agentic workflows
  • Open weights (Qwen2.5, Qwen3)
  • Tab completion feels like mind-reading
  • Composer for multi-file edits
  • Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick
  • Best text rendering in the game
  • Strong free tier
  • Good for logos, posters, thumbnails
  • Pull live data from Stripe, Slack, Google Analytics, etc.
  • AI functions inside cells
  • Modern UX
Weaknesses
  • English quality behind Claude/GPT
  • Less well-known outside Asia
  • Can feel overwhelming for non-coders
  • Expensive at scale
  • Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney
  • Less style variety
  • Not a full Excel replacement for heavy users
  • Integrations best on paid tiers
Kai's verdictA-tier. The best open model for Vietnamese + Chinese. Don't sleep on it if you work in SEA.S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art.A-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.
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