Ante vs. Pi

Feature	Ante	Pi

Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	A minimal terminal coding harness
Website	https://ante.run/	https://pi.dev
Language	rust	typescript
Release Date	December 23, 2025	December 2, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	No
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	No
IDE Integration	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins	None - Terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent; auto-compaction
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: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, OpenRouter, Groq, Ollama, xAI, Azure, Bedrock
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	GitHub Copilot 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/badlogic/pi-mono
Development State	active	active