Ante vs. OpenHands CLI

Feature	Ante	OpenHands CLI
Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	Lightweight OpenHands CLI as a standalone AI coding agent
Website	https://ante.run/	https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands
Language	rust	python
Release Date	December 23, 2025	October 18, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	basic	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	No	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins	Zed, Toad, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	No	No
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	#64 · 51.9% ±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	Models from multiple providers including, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI. Compatible with 400+ OpenRouter models.
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/OpenHands/OpenHands
Development State	active	active

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

² OpenHands CLI tested with Claude Opus 4.5 on Terminal Bench v2.0.