Claude Code Alternatives

Apps similar to Claude Code include opencode, which is free and open source. Other options are Google Antigravity, Cursor, Void and Devin Desktop. AI Coding Assistants like Claude Code are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Selfcoder icon
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    SelfCoder is AI coding assistant for VS Code-compatible editors, designed as a local-first alternative to GitHub Copilot. It integrates directly with local Ollama models to provide AI-powered code completion, chat, and coding assistance while keeping development workflows...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  2. Open-source, local-first desktop IDE for designing and running multi-agent swarms offline with Ollama, built in Rust, Tauri v2, and SQLite with a visual swarm designer and diff approval gate.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  3. Azent icon
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    Azent is an AI coding agent that lives inside Azure DevOps, letting you trigger it from work items and pull requests to implement features, fix bugs, review PRs, address review comments and basically anything else — all without leaving the browser.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  4. Amp Code icon
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    Amp is the frontier coding agent that lets you wield the full power of leading models. Pay as you go, with no markup for individuals.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  5. A free, open-source, Cursor-style desktop editor for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Kimi, Gemini, Qwen and DeepSeek.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. Desktop app that runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent and other AI coding agents side by side and shows what each one is doing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  7. SageBow icon
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    SageBow's autonomous AI agents deploy directly into your Python environment and execute end-to-end tasks.

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. A new family of code large language models (LLMs) designed to advance autonomous software engineering and code intelligence.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  9. app.nz icon
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    app.nz is an AI agent cloud for shipping software: coding agents work from repos, run tests and visual checks, open PRs, and deploy apps, APIs, workers, and model endpoints from one platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. Next-Gen autonomous AI software engineer, combining dual-engine intelligence, 136+ MCP tools, real-time voice-to-code, and native desktop app.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  11. HarnessRouter is the world's first unified interface for agent harnesses. Your product sends a task through one HTTP API; HarnessRouter runs the agent harness (Codex, Claude Code, or Hermes) in an isolated sandboxed session and streams progress, files, and reviewable...

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Linux desktop coding agent with one picker for your Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity and Grok subscriptions, hundreds of OpenRouter models, or local GGUF models on llama.cpp.

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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Flatpak
    • AppImage
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