Keen Code vs. Snowflake Cortex CLI

Feature	Keen Code	Snowflake Cortex CLI

Tagline	Terminal coding agent in Go with a deliberately lean tool set	Snowflake-native AI coding agent for data engineering
Website	https://mochow13.github.io/keen-code/	https://snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex-code/
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	February 16, 2026	February 2, 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	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	No	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	None - Terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	No	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent; auto-compaction	Model-dependent
Supported Models	Anthropic, OpenAI, Codex via ChatGPT OAuth, Google AI, Moonshot Kimi, Z.ai GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax, Amazon Bedrock, OpenCode Go, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint	Snowflake managed models - Claude Opus / Sonnet, GPT 5.2
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT	—
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free trial / $20/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (MIT)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/mochow13/keen-code	N/A
Development State	active	active