ALTERNATIVES
Amp alternatives
Find alternatives for different ways of working and compare them directly with Amp.
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A good fit if your team wants to hand coding tasks from Linear tickets, GitHub events or Slack to agents
Compare nowA good fit if you want a coding agent in VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal or desktop with your own model access
Compare nowA good fit if you want an open-source terminal agent without a required account
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Augment Cosmos
Coding agent platform with Experts and automations
Coding agent platform for specialized tasks and automations. Cosmos combines Experts, repositories and tools in local or managed environments.
Same tool categoryDevelop softwareAutomateAvailability still unclear
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Cline
Coding agent with desktop, CLI and extensions
Coding agent for desktop, terminal and editor. It reads and edits project files, runs commands and uses a browser.
Same tool categoryDevelop softwareAutomateSelf-hostableSelf-hostable without licence feeWith requirements
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CodeWhale
Open-source terminal coding agent
Open-source coding agent for the terminal, formerly DeepSeek-TUI, that works with many model providers and local models.
Same tool categoryDevelop softwareAutomateSelf-hostableFree to startWith requirements
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Coding agent
Coding agent for the editor and terminal with configurable models and tools.
Same tool categoryDevelop softwareAutomateSelf-hostableWith requirements
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DeepSeek Harness
Open-source agent harness in preview
Open-source agent harness from DeepSeek with a plugin architecture, web interface and desktop app, currently a developer preview.
Same tool categoryDevelop softwareAutomateSelf-hostableFree to startWith requirements
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Factory
Platform with coding agents (Droids)
Development platform with Droids, agents that work on software tasks in the terminal, apps, Slack, Jira and CI.
Same tool categoryDevelop softwareAutomateWith requirements
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Google Antigravity
Agent platform with desktop, CLI, and IDE
An agent platform for development work: Antigravity 2.0 organizes tasks in a standalone desktop app. The CLI and IDE provide additional interfaces to the shared agent core.
Same tool categoryDevelop softwareAutomateSelf-hostableFree to startAvailable
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Grok Build
Terminal coding agent with open source code
Terminal coding agent from SpaceXAI / xAI: it reads the codebase, edits files, runs commands and works interactively, headless or through ACP.
Same tool categoryDevelop softwareAutomateSelf-hostableAvailability still unclear
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