Ante vs. Codewhale

Feature	Ante	Codewhale

Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	Community-driven coding agent that runs a different model per role
Website	https://ante.run/	https://codewhale.net/
Language	rust	rust
Release Date	December 23, 2025	January 19, 2026
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
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	Editors via ACP (registry submission pending)
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0	#24 · 69.4% ±2.1 ¹
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	30+ providers: DeepSeek, Claude, GPT, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, Grok, Mistral, Xiaomi MiMo, Alibaba Model Studio, SiliconFlow, OpenCode Zen, Hugging Face; local via vLLM, SGLang, Ollama
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	ChatGPT SuperGrok
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Free, BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (alpha preview)	Free (BYOK)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante	https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale
Development State	active	active