Key takeaways
- qoder.com is operated by Bright Zenith Private Limited in Singapore, not as Alibaba Cloud's China SKU.
- Qoder CN, documented on Alibaba Cloud's Lingma help path, is the May 20, 2026 rename of Tongyi Lingma.
- Desktop, IDE, JetBrains, CLI, Cloud Agents, and related names appear in both regions; accounts, invoices, and model catalogs are not interchangeable.
- Do not copy international USD pricing or US/Singapore/Japan residency claims onto Qoder CN, or CNY VPC terms onto qoder.com.
FAQ
Who makes Qoder?
The international site names Bright Zenith Private Limited, 51 Bras Basah Road, Singapore. Qoder CN is an Alibaba Cloud first-party product, formerly Tongyi Lingma.
Are Qoder and Qoder CN the same product?
They are regional siblings with similar surface names, not one SKU. International Teams accounts cannot issue Chinese fapiao; China billing is a separate Alibaba Cloud path.
How much does international Qoder cost?
Open docs.qoder.com pricing at purchase. Published individual Pro/Pro+/Ultra credit plans have been listed around $20 / $60 / $200 per month; confirm live figures rather than this summary.
What happened to Tongyi Lingma?
Alibaba Cloud documentation describes a May 20, 2026 rename to Qoder CN. Old /lingma/ help URLs still describe that China product family.
Executive Summary
Qoder is two regional products that share a name. International qoder.com is Bright Zenith Private Limited (Singapore). Qoder CN is Alibaba Cloud's coding-agent family, renamed from Tongyi Lingma (通义灵码) on May 20, 2026, with help pages still under /lingma/. They look like the same desktop/IDE/CLI/cloud-agent family. They are not one commercial SKU.[1][2]
Checked September 23, 2026. The about page lists contact@qoder.com and 51 Bras Basah Road, #03-01 Lazada One, Singapore 189554, and a "Visit China Site" link to qoder.cn. Footer copyright is Bright Zenith. SOC 2 and ISO27001 marks appear on the international site; those marks are not copied here onto CN.[1]
This page is the relationship review requested in Foundation Lab Coding Agents. Alibaba develops Qwen models; international Qoder's operator is Bright Zenith. Company-group membership for the international SKU is not proven by the shared brand. Qoder CN clearly sits in the Alibaba Cloud catalog.
| Attribute | International Qoder | Qoder CN |
|---|---|---|
| Operator | Bright Zenith Pte. Ltd., Singapore.[1] | Alibaba Cloud; former Tongyi Lingma.[2] |
| Sites | qoder.com, docs.qoder.com | qoder.cn, docs.qoder.cn, Alibaba /lingma/ help |
| Data | Privacy copy has cited US, Singapore, Japan processing | China deploy / VPC options in CN docs |
| Billing | International cards / marketplace | Alibaba Cloud CNY; fapiao via China channels |
International Qoder
Surfaces advertised from the about-page footer: Qoder desktop, Mobile, IDE, JetBrains plugin, CLI, Agent SDK, Cloud Agents, QoderWork, QoderWake, Enterprise.[1]
Pricing on the marketing homepage was not a complete static table in this fetch. Documentation sites have listed individual Pro around $20/month (2,000 credits), Pro+ $60 (6,000), Ultra $200 (20,000), plus Teams/Enterprise seat SKUs. Reprint those only after opening the live docs.qoder.com pricing page at purchase.
Security claims on the international site include SOC 2 / ISO27001. That is a certification mark, not a reviewed report in this profile.
Qoder CN
Alibaba Cloud's Lingma billing documentation, updated through 2026, describes the Tongyi Lingma rename and a desktop/CLI/product family. Canonical Chinese docs are at docs.qoder.cn. CN individual prices in RMB (for example Pro around CNY 59/month in secondary notes) must be read from the live CN page. Enterprise VPC / dedicated instance language is a China offering.[2]
VS Code plugin sunset and lingering Visual Studio changelog items, if still true, belong only to the CN history, not to Bright Zenith's international catalog, until each side's changelog is checked.
Relationship
Evidence they are siblings, not clones:
- Shared product-shape names and a header link from qoder.com to qoder.cn.[1]
- Separate legal entities and support mailboxes.
- Invoice/fapiao split: international Teams cannot issue Chinese fapiao; China purchases go through Alibaba Cloud.
- Alibaba CDN assets on the international about page do not by themselves make Bright Zenith an Alibaba Cloud SKU.
Do not infer model catalogs (Qwen versus GLM/DeepSeek/Kimi on CN) across regions.
What Developers Say
forum.qoder.com mixes English and Chinese users and treats Alibaba as a vendor in CN threads. Reddit r/Qoder was linked from the site; the fetch returned 403 here, so no Reddit comments are quoted. No hands-on Qoder run was performed.
Competitive Positioning
| Alternative | Why compare |
|---|---|
| Qwen Code | Alibaba/Qwen's open-source terminal agent. Different client from Qoder desktop/CN. |
| Tembo | No Qoder integration found on tembo.io.[3] |
Disclosure: Ry Walker is Tembo's co-founder and CEO.
Assessment
If you are buying on qoder.com, evaluate Bright Zenith's live USD terms and US/SG/JP processing claims. If you are buying in China, evaluate Qoder CN / Lingma on Alibaba Cloud. Do not merge those conclusions. For an Alibaba-lab open-source CLI, start with Qwen Code instead of assuming Qoder is that tool.