Established AI coding assistant supporting 70+ languages with broad IDE plugin coverage. Personal tier is completely free with no usage limits. Enterprise tier adds more features.
Huawei DevEco Code
Huawei CLI coding assistant with built-in Zhipu GLM-4.6 model, ready to use after login with no manual selection needed. Completely free with no usage limits, trained on Huawei Ascend chips, coding capability reaches 94.6% of Claude Opus 4.6. Rich theme options with dark/light mode switching, great looking interface.
🆓 Free Tier Details
Free AvailableFree Credits
0 unlimited (GLM-5.1 built-in)
Unlimited
Credit Card
✅ Not Required
Watermark
✅ No watermark
Commercial Use
✅ Allowed
Resolution: N/A
Available models: GLM-4.6 Free
Daily limit: 无限制
Last verified: 2026-06-15
👍👎 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- +Completely free with no limits, no queuing
- +GLM-4.6 coding capability near Claude Opus
- +npm install, 3 minutes to start
- +Based on Huawei Ascend chips, domestic autonomous
- +Not tied to HarmonyOS development, works for general coding
❌ Cons
- -Standalone CLI tool, cannot integrate with Cursor/Claude Code
- -Currently positioned as HarmonyOS development assistant
- -Model capability not as strong as Claude Opus/GPT-4o
🎯 Key Features
💡 Tips & Tricks
- 1npm install -g @deveco/deveco-code
- 2Type 'deveco' in terminal to start
- 3Type '/models' to select GLM-4.6 Free
- 4Use as backup when main tool has issues
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