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Alternatives to Claude Code

Claude Code is an AI agent by Anthropic: Anthropic's coding agent that reads your codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDE, desktop app, web and Slack. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 AI agents cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match Claude Code and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. OpenCode leads the list (open source). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with Claude Code.

Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade

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Claude Code

Anthropic's coding agent that reads your codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDE, desktop app, web and Slack

12 alternatives

Ordered by how closely each matches Claude Code (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.

  1. 1
    OpenCode

    Anomaly

    Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, desktop and IDEs that connects to 75+ model providers

    • Open source

    ★ 220.9KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  2. 2
    Hermes Agent

    Nous Research

    Self-hosted agent from Nous Research that builds skills from experience and is reachable from the terminal and chat apps

    • Open source

    ★ 256.8KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  3. 3
    Cline

    Cline Bot Inc.

    Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal and a desktop app that asks for approval before each action

    • Open source

    ★ 70.8KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  4. 4
    Open Interpreter

    Open Interpreter

    Terminal coding agent, forked from OpenAI's Codex, tuned for low-cost open models and compatible with ACP editors

    • Open source

    ★ 68.7KLast active Oct 11, 2026

  5. 5
    Gemini CLI

    Google

    Open-source terminal agent that queries and edits codebases and automates tasks with Gemini models

    • Open source

    ★ 107.7K↓ 231.3K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026

  6. 6
    Qwen Code

    Alibaba Qwen

    Open-source coding agent for the terminal, editor, desktop, browser and chat apps that works with Qwen, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs

    • Open source

    ★ 28.7KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  7. 7
    Crush

    Charm

    Terminal coding agent from Charm that works with many LLMs, LSPs and MCP servers across macOS, Linux, Windows and BSD

    • 28.8K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 28.8KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  8. 8
    GitHub Copilot CLI

    GitHub

    Terminal version of GitHub Copilot's coding agent that works with your repos, issues and pull requests and asks before acting

    • 11.3K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 11.3K↓ 1.3M/wkLast active Oct 22, 2026

  9. 9
    Codebuff

    Codebuff

    Free coding agents for terminal, desktop, web and GitHub repositories, supported by text ads.

    • Open source

    ★ 13.7KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  10. 10
    OpenAI Codex

    OpenAI

    OpenAI's coding agent for the terminal, editor, desktop app and ChatGPT cloud, included in ChatGPT plans

    • Open source

    ★ 130.8K↓ 13.1M/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026

  11. 11
    Kimi Code CLI

    Moonshot AI

    Terminal coding agent from Moonshot AI that edits code and runs commands, with MCP, skills and ACP support.

    • Open source

    ★ 8K↓ 71.3K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026

  12. 12
    Mistral Vibe

    Mistral AI

    Open-source command-line coding assistant from Mistral that runs on Mistral models and asks approval before tool execution.

    • Open source

    ★ 5.2KLast active Oct 22, 2026

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