Best Plandex alternatives

Anthropic's agentic coding tool, running in the terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser, reading your codebase and editing files with explicit approval.

OpenAI's cloud-based autonomous coding agent, powered by the GPT-5 family, reading a codebase and opening pull requests from written instructions.

Open-source terminal coding agent with a TUI that works with any model provider, including local models, and supports LSP, MCP and custom agents.

Open-source AI agent from Block, runnable as a desktop app or CLI, connecting to external systems via MCP and now governed by the Agentic AI Foundation.

Google's open-source terminal coding agent built on Gemini models with a 1M-token context window. Shut down for free consumer accounts June 18, 2026.