Ante vs. Claude Code

Feature	Ante	Claude Code
Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	An agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal
Website	https://ante.run/	https://claude.ai/code
Language	rust	typescript
Release Date	December 23, 2025	February 22, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	AI Lab
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	basic	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	No	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins	VS Code, JetBrains
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	1M tokens
Terminal Bench 2.0	#24 · 69.4% ±2.1 1	#52 · 58.0% ±2.9 2
Supported Models	17 built-in presets: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Vertex, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Zai, Ali Coding Plan, Antix, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via ~/.ante/catalog.json and any local GGUF model through the bundled llama.cpp	Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 (Restricted Availability), Opus 4.8, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	Claude Code
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Subscription
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (alpha preview)	$17-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante	https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
Development State	active	active

¹ Ante tested with Gemini 3 Pro on Terminal Bench v2.0.

² Claude Code tested with Claude Opus 4.6 on Terminal Bench v2.0.