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Qwen3-Coder vs GitHub Copilot — should you go local? (2026)

One is free, private, and offline; the other is polished, cloud-hosted, and $10-19 a month. Here's the honest trade-off between a local Qwen3-Coder setup and GitHub Copilot.

Lena Fischer · Aug 5 · 10 min

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how to get a free, private AI coding assistant in VS Code — no Copilot subscription, no cloud

Point your editor at a model on your own machine and get autocomplete, chat, and even an agent that edits files — free, unlimited, and with your code never leaving your PC. Here's the setup.

Lena Fischer · Aug 3 · 10 min