Alibaba Releases AI Agent iFlow CLI
iFlow CLI: Free AI agent for developers. Run tasks in natural language, no coding needed. Top performance, zero cost.
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Recently, Alibaba’s Xinliu Research Team quietly released a terminal AI agent called iFlow CLI, claiming to be the strongest alternative to Claude Code!
iFlow CLI can run directly in the terminal using a natural language command-line format. Most importantly, it’s specifically designed for developers and is permanently free for individual users with no throttling!
As for how Claude Code was outperformed, a comparison of performance benchmarks makes it crystal clear:
When iFlow CLI, Claude Code, and Codex all use the newly popular domestic large language model Qwen3-Coder, across four benchmark tests:
GAIA (General search Q&A)
SWE-bench (GitHub code fixing)
Terminal-Bench (Diverse CLI usage scenarios, such as environment configuration, dataset downloading, etc.)
BrowseComp-ZH (Chinese general search)
iFlow CLI demonstrated superior comprehensive performance compared to Claude Code, Codex, and other tools:
