Claude Code vs. Deep Agents CLI

Feature	Claude Code	Deep Agents CLI
Tagline	An agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal	A pre-built coding agent powered by any LLM with tool calling
Website	https://claude.ai/code	https://docs.langchain.com/deepagents
Language	typescript	python
Release Date	February 22, 2025	October 19, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	June 29, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	Yes	No
IDE Integration	VS Code, JetBrains	None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	1M tokens	Model-dependent; compression at threshold
Terminal Bench 2.0	#52 · 58.0% ±2.9 1	#29 · 66.5% ±3.1 2
Supported Models	Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 (Restricted Availability), Opus 4.8, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5	Any LangChain model: Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, Groq, xAI
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code	ChatGPT
Pricing Model	Subscription	BYOK
Free Tier	No	Yes
Price Range	$17-200/mo	Free (BYOK)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code	https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents
Development State	active	active

¹ Claude Code tested with Claude Opus 4.6 on Terminal Bench v2.0.

² Deep Agents CLI tested with GPT-5.2-Codex on Terminal Bench v2.0.