Ante vs. Poolside Agent CLI

Feature	Ante	Poolside Agent CLI

Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	Work with Poolside Agents from your terminal
Website	https://ante.run/	https://docs.poolside.ai/cli/pool
Language	rust	go
Release Date	December 23, 2025	October 25, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	August 14, 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	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins	Poolside Assistant, VS Code, Visual Studio
Hooks / Extensions	No	No
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	(Point) 64K - 128K (Malibu, Laguna)
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	Laguna M.1, Laguna XS.2, Malibu, Point and OpenRouter with over 300+ supported models.
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	—
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Subscription, Subscription, BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (alpha preview)	$0, Enterprise
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante	https://github.com/poolsideai/pool
Development State	active	active