Ante vs Vix

Feature	Ante	Vix

Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	Sleek, Fast and Token Efficient AI Coding Agent
Website	https://ante.run/	https://getvix.dev
Language	rust	go
Release Date	December 23, 2025	June 1, 2026
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	basic	shallow
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
Auto Test Running	No	No
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	N/A
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench	#23 · 69.4% ±2.1 (Terminal-Bench 2.0) 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	Anthropic Models (Opus 4.8 / 4.7 / 4.6), OpenAI (GPT-5.1 / o3 / 4o), MiniMax, Xiaomin MiMo and 300+ Models on OpenRouter.
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	Claude Code ChatGPT
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (alpha preview)	$0
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante	https://github.com/kirby88/vix
Development State	active	active