The best Orca alternatives
8 tools that do a similar job to Orca, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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OrcaA desktop app for running several coding agents side by side, each in its own git worktree.
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Claudian
Open source · MIT · ★ 15.9k
An Obsidian plugin that puts an AI coding agent inside your notes vault as a chat sidebar.
Best for: Obsidian users who already use Claude Code or Codex and want that agent inside their notes; People who want an AI to edit or reorganize many notes in a folder at once
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CC Switch
Open source · MIT · ★ 151k
Desktop app to switch API providers and manage MCP, Skills, and prompts for AI coding agents.
Best for: Developers who use several AI coding agents and switch between API providers often; People who find editing agent config files by hand error-prone
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OmniRoute
Open source · MIT · ★ 83.8k
A free, MIT-licensed gateway that routes one API endpoint to many AI model providers.
Best for: Developers who use several AI coding tools and want one place to configure providers; People who want to connect their own free-tier provider accounts and spread requests across them
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Happy
Open source · MIT · ★ 24.4k
A multi-model coding agent app that runs Claude, Codex and Grok, with a phone companion, using your existing s
Best for: Developers who already pay for Claude, Codex or Grok subscriptions and want one interface for them; People who want to check on a running coding agent from their phone
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Paperclip
Open source · MIT · ★ 110k
Open-source Node.js and React app for organizing teams of AI agents around goals, tasks, and budgets.
Best for: Developers already running several AI coding agents who want one place to track them; Small teams experimenting with autonomous agents that need budgets and approval steps
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CLIProxyAPI
Open source · MIT · ★ 57.3k
A local proxy server that exposes CLI and web AI accounts as OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude compatible APIs.
Best for: Developers who already use OpenAI- or Claude-compatible tools and want to route them to other providers; People who hold several CLI accounts and want one local endpoint for them
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magpie
Open source · MIT · ★ 28.2k
A local gateway that lets AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex use models from other providers.
Best for: People who use more than one AI coding agent and want one place to manage their models; Users with several provider accounts or API keys who want automatic fallback when a quota runs out
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CodexBar
Open source · MIT · ★ 22.9k
A menu bar app (plus CLI) that shows your AI coding tool usage limits and reset times.
Best for: Developers who use several AI coding tools and want to see remaining limits at a glance; People on usage-capped subscription plans who want to plan long tasks around reset times
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Orca. We don't take payment for placement.