Open Claude Alternatives

Apps similar to Open Claude include Claude Code. It's paid, but Qwen Code and hax are free. Other options are Google Antigravity, Google Gemma, Roo Code and OpenGravity. In total there are nine AI Coding Assistants like Open Claude for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Claude Code icon
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    Terminal AI assistant features deep codebase awareness, rapid code searches, multi-file edits, and advanced code understanding with explicit approval for changes, integration with VS Code and JetBrains, leverages build tools and test suites, and is highly configurable.

    166 Claude Code alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Homebrew
    • npm
    • JetBrains IDE
    • Online
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  2. Google Antigravity is an agentic IDE and coding environment designed to support real world software projects through autonomous development workflows. It provides an agent first workspace where developers set direction while AI agents carry out tasks such as coding, debugging...

    93 Google Antigravity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Xcode
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
    • Zed
    • JetBrains IDE
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  3. Google Gemma icon
     34 likes

    A family of lightweight, state-of-the art open models built from the same research and technology that we used to create the Gemini models.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Qwen Code icon
     7 likes

    Qwen Code is an AI-powered command-line workflow tool designed for developers, adapted from Gemini CLI and optimized for Qwen3-Coder models.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. hax icon
     9 likes

    A minimalist, terminal-native coding agent. A single native C binary that uses a few MBs of RAM. Local models are first-class via llama.cpp and Ollama; also OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and Codex.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • Homebrew
    • OpenBSD
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  6. Roo Code icon
     8 likes

    Supercharge your editor with AI that understands your codebase, streamlines development, and helps you write, refactor, and debug with ease.

    31 Roo Code alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Visual Studio Code
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  7. OpenGravity icon
     2 likes

    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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  8. Tiny, open, native coding agent. A minimal CLI written in Zig, optimized for research and embeddability as part of larger systems.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
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  9. Thurbox icon
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    Thurbox runs any CLI agent you define, side by side in persistent tmux panes. The agents keep running after you quit thurbox. One command installs it, and thurbox runs it — that is the whole setup.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • PowerShell
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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