Ante vs. Toad

Feature	Ante	Toad

Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	A unified interface for AI in your terminal
Website	https://ante.run/	https://batrachian.ai
Language	rust	python
Release Date	December 23, 2025	December 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	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	No	No
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	None - Terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Depends on underlying agent
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	Compatible with AI coding agents and models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Kimi, OpenHands via ACP
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	—
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (alpha preview)	Free
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante	https://github.com/batrachianai/toad
Development State	active	active