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Running Qwen Code on a Custom OpenAI-Compatible API: modelProviders, a 41,000-Character First Request and Retries That Keep Going for Minutes

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Qwen Code is the terminal coding agent from the Qwen team. It started as a fork of Gemini CLI, but unlike Gemini CLI it speaks the OpenAI Chat Completions format, so it can run against any OpenAI-compatible server: vLLM, Ollama's /v1 endpoint, LiteLLM, or a hosted gateway. Setup is simple. A few de…

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  1. 2026-10-18 21:48 · DEV Community — AI
    Running Qwen Code on a Custom OpenAI-Compatible API: modelProviders, a 41,000-Character First Request and Retries That Keep Going for Minutes

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