Open Claude Alternatives

Open Claude is described as 'A coding-agent CLI for OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, Codex, GitHub Models, and 200+ models via OpenAI-compatible APIs' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to Open Claude for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Visual Studio Code and Web-based apps. The best Open Claude alternative is Claude Code. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Google Antigravity or Google Gemma. Other great apps like Open Claude are Qwen Code, hax, Roo Code and OpenGravity.

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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.

    152 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...

    81 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
     32 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.

    104 Google Gemma alternatives

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    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

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    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.

    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.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
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