Alternatives to Claude Code

Open-source coding agent that edits code and runs terminal commands across IDE, CLI, and desktop.

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant for long-document analysis, coding, and agentic work in chat and Cowork.

Crush is a free, open-source agentic coding assistant that runs in your terminal and wires any LLM into your CLI workflow.

Cursor is the agentic coding IDE that plans, builds, tests and ships software across desktop, CLI, Slack, mobile and cloud agents.

Openclaude is an open-source coding agent CLI that runs any model in your terminal with reviewable, scriptable changes.

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding agent that completes code, reviews pull requests, and runs agents from issue to merge

Define cloud coding agents in environment.yaml, deploy them by merging a PR, and run Claude Code or Codex with scoped permissions and hard spend caps.

Sourcegraph Cody is an AI coding assistant that grounds chat, completions, and agent workflows in your entire multi-repo codebase.

Build, run, and orchestrate fleets of AI coding agents across your SDLC with Warp Factories, Warp Terminal, and the Warp Agent CLI

Open Interpreter runs natural-language commands on your computer from the terminal

Junie is JetBrains' AI coding agent that runs in your terminal, IDE, GitHub, or GitLab — with any model you bring.

Open-source autonomous AI coding agent that plans, executes, and deploys tasks inside VS Code and JetBrains IDEs.

OpenAI's cloud coding agent that runs many software engineering tasks in parallel, each in an isolated sandbox preloaded with your repo.

Devin is Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships production code inside your own repository and tools.

GPT Engineer turns a plain-English prompt into a runnable web app codebase from your terminal or browser.

Agentic coding platform that plans, executes, verifies, and iterates until real software tasks are done.

Terminal-native AI coding agent with hash-anchored edits and 40+ model providers

Open-source terminal coding agent that runs the model you choose, hosted or local.

Z.ai is a free conversational AI assistant for presentations, writing, and agentic coding with ZCode.

Open-source AI coding agent orchestrator with per-task LLM routing across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Ollama.

Hermes IDE is a multi-project, multi-agent desktop IDE where every repo and every Claude, Codex, or Gemini session stays open at once.

Paseo is a self-hosted control plane for running AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex from any device.

An open-source multi-agent harness that runs a virtual office of AI clones on your existing Claude Code and Codex subscriptions.

Local-first Agent OS that runs official Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode CLIs on your own machine with a shared Workbench.

Cognition's Devin is an autonomous software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships merge-ready production code.

Bito's Governor is an AI model router and code context engine that cuts coding agent spend by grounding every request in your codebase.

Open-weight agentic coding models — Laguna XS 2.1 and Laguna S 2.1 — built for secure on-prem and air-gapped enterprise AI.

Multi-agent AI coding assistant for VS Code, launching soon

Cosine Genie is a coding AI built on production code, with CLI, cloud, and air-gapped deployment for maintainable software.

Enterprise AI code assistant that feeds your architecture, policies and standards into every agent your team runs