Free, Unlimited Agentic AI with Local Qwen 3.5

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-03-08 · Open on X

Topics: AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, LLM Fundamentals · Level: intermediate

Summary

The creator says running Qwen 3.5 locally gives free, unlimited agentic AI with no API costs, and plans to test it with his own agent SDK.

Key points

• A local model removes per-token API costs and rate limits for agentic workloads.
• The creator plans to plug Qwen 3.5 into his own agent SDK.

Resources mentioned

• Qwen 3.5 · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Alibaba Qwen open model family with small on-device variants and toggleable reasoning.
  Also in: Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.5 0.8B Does Real-Time Local Video Captioning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.5 0.8B Real-Time Video Captioning on Mac Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen 3.5 Is the Local Model That Holds Up in Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 7 more

Try this

• Connect a local Qwen 3.5 model to your own agent framework or SDK