In this pass, I could not successfully read the official SWE-bench Pro leaderboard or the Terminal-Bench board, which on the official site was already on version 4.1, while Qwen and MiniMax still cite 2.1. Without that reading, I do not publish an independent position as if it were settled.
What exists with a source is the labs' own cuts, under different conditions. In Qwen's table, with the Claude Code harness, Fable 5 stands at 80.0 on SWE-bench Pro and Qwen3.8-Max at 67.7, plus 86.6 on Terminal Bench 2.1. MiniMax reports 59.0 on SWE-bench Pro (Claude Code) and 66.0 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, with Terminus 2, an 8C16G sandbox, a 2 hour limit and 128K output. Qwen's 86.6, with Claude Code and 5 hours, does not compare with MiniMax's 66.0. Even inside the same family the bill does not close on its own: Qwen3.8-27B reports 73.0 on Terminal Bench 2.1 with the Terminus harness, while the Max run uses Claude Code. MiniMax also reports 80.5 on SWE-bench Verified, with a swapped system prompt and an average of 4 runs: partial transparency, and one more reason not to decide on that cut alone.
Qwen Code CLI is Apache 2.0, had 29,157 stars and was on release v0.27.1, according to the GitHub API. The free OAuth plan ended, in PR #3291. Sensitive code still calls for a conversation about where the data runs, including the option to run locally.