Pi vs. Plandex

Feature	Pi	Plandex

Tagline	A minimal terminal coding harness	Open source AI coding agent for large projects and real world tasks
Website	https://pi.dev	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Language	typescript	go
Release Date	December 2, 2025	March 14, 2024
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	June 11, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	No	No
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	No
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent; auto-compaction	2M tokens effective
Supported Models	20+ providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, OpenRouter, Groq, Ollama, xAI, Azure, Bedrock	Any OpenAI-compatible models and 400+ models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free (self-hosted)
Source Code Availability	Open Source (MIT)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Development State	active	inactive