Antevsdeepx-code
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Ante
Antigma Labs · Terminal agent
#61OSSMCP
Panel
7.12 spec wins
- Reliability
- 7.0
- Usefulness
- 7.2
- Cost
- 7.8
- Longevity
- 6.3
“It runs on DeepSeek, Claude, Gemini, Grok, OpenAI and Qwen, so it is the only thing in this industry with no strong opinions.”
deepx-code
itmisx · Terminal agent
#101OSSMCP
Panel
7.01 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.8
- Usefulness
- 6.8
- Cost
- 8.5
- Longevity
- 6.0
“It bundles offline OCR, so the agent can read the screenshot of the error you refused to copy and paste.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Ante | deepx-code |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | Yes/sandbox defaults to native OS isolation (macOS Seatbelt, Linux bubblewrap) with docker container isolation available as an alternative. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | YesSubagents are spawned by the agent invoking itself with ante -p "<task>". | YesIndependent subtasks are split into a plan DAG and dispatched to concurrent subagents, and JS workflow scripts fan work out across agents. |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | DeepSeek, Claude, Gemini, Grok, OpenAI, Qwen | DeepSeek, Xiaomi MiMo, Kimi, Qwen, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | YesAny custom OpenAI-compatible model can be configured, which covers a locally served one; no specific local runtime is named. |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 1,993 | 393 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Ante | deepx-code | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.0 | 7.3 | deepx-code — Pick it if you want cheap work to stay cheap without thinking about it; pick a single-model agent if you would rather always know which model answered. |
| El Crítico | 6.3 | 6.8 | deepx-code — The code graph resolves symbols through go/types, so callers and impact analysis are exact for Go and fall back to ordinary text tools in every other language. |
| El Profesor | 7.8 | 7.0 | Ante — Terminal-Bench 2.1 at 82.7 percent, reported as 368 of 445 trials across 89 tasks at five trials each, for roughly 68 dollars of inference, under the official constraints. |
| La Inversora | 6.8 | 6.3 | Ante — Antigma Labs has 1,929 stars and a positioning bet: sell the harness, stay neutral on the model, and let every provider's next release be free marketing. |
| La Jefa | 6.0 | 7.0 | deepx-code — It isolates by default through macOS Seatbelt and Linux bubblewrap rather than asking the user to opt in, which is the first default on this shelf I did not have to argue for. |
| El Hacker | 8.8 | 8.0 | Ante — Apache-2.0, MCP servers attach, and the built-in llama.cpp engine runs a GGUF file with no API key and no network at all, which is the whole argument. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.