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. Oh My Pi icon
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    AI coding agent for the terminal — hash-anchored edits, optimized tool harness, LSP, Python, browser, subagents, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  2. hi isn't just another AI chat wrapper or fully autonomous coding agent - it's a context-aware terminal assistant that operates within your workflow. It sees what you see - your terminal window, eliminating context switching and copy-pasting.

    52 hi - AI Assistant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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  3. Qödiak icon
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    AI-powered no-code app builder — describe what you want in plain English and get a complete working app with authentication, admin panels, and AI chatbot in 60 seconds. Uses 60+ pre-tested components instead of generating raw code, which results in instantly usable websites and forms.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Aura IDE icon
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    An AI coding harness that dogfooded itself into shape: Planner/Worker agents, repo awareness, surgical edits, validation, recovery, and safe diff approvals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Open Claude icon
     2 likes

    A coding-agent CLI for OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, Codex, GitHub Models, and 200+ models via OpenAI-compatible APIs.

    9 Open Claude alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • npm
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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  6. OpenGravity icon
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    An experimental, lightweight, BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) recreation of the Google Antigravity UI. OpenGravity provides a browser-based, reasoning-enabled IDE with a live xterm.js terminal powered by the WebContainer API.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Hivekeep icon
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    Hivekeep runs a team of specialized personal AI agents on your own server. Each agent has its own identity, expertise, memory and tools. Agents collaborate with each other, remember everything across months in one continuous session, and extend the platform themselves by writing...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
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  8. Anthropic's platform for building and deploying cloud-hosted AI agents: you define the agent, Anthropic runs it in managed sandboxes with state, scheduling, and credential management.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. Claw Code icon
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    An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Trae Plugin icon
     7 likes

    Trae Plugin is an AI-powered cloud-based IDE (Integrated Development Environment). The built-in AI Assistant and the out-of-the-box development environment let you focus more on the development of various projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Visual Studio Code
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  11. BLACKBOX.AI icon
     2 likes

    Comprehensive AI coding assistant supporting code completion, debugging, and optimization with over 300 models, multi-platform access, seamless workflow integration, automation, context awareness, and input handling for text, image, video, and speech.

    61 BLACKBOX.AI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Freebuff icon
     2 likes

    Freebuff is a development platform that provides free access to AI coding agents through multiple interfaces, including a Desktop application, a Command Line Interface (CLI), a Web app builder, and a Cloud-based IDE.

    34 Freebuff alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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