Ante vs. Neovate Code

Feature	Ante	Neovate Code

Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	A code agent to enhance your development
Website	https://ante.run/	https://neovateai.dev
Language	rust	typescript
Release Date	December 23, 2025	March 19, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	April 28, 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	No
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins	Zed
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	No
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	20+ providers including: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq and 400+ supported models on OpenRouter.
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	—
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	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/neovateai/neovate-code
Development State	active	active