Keen Code vs. VT Code

Feature	Keen Code	VT Code

Tagline	Terminal coding agent in Go with a deliberately lean tool set	Semantic AI coding agent with LLM-native code understanding
Website	https://mochow13.github.io/keen-code/	https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode
Language	go	rust
Release Date	February 16, 2026	September 12, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	June 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	basic	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	No	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	VS Code, Zed, Cursor, Windsurf
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	No	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent; auto-compaction	Model-dependent; auto-summarization
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	API compatible models for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Z.AI, Ollama, LM Studio and 400+ models on OpenRouter
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT	GitHub Copilot ChatGPT
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free (BYOK)
Source Code Availability	Open Source (MIT)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/mochow13/keen-code	https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode
Development State	active	active