Llama CodervsRefact.ai
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Llama Coder
Steve Korshakov · IDE extension
#204OSS
Panel
5.21 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.0
- Usefulness
- 3.7
- Cost
- 8.3
- Longevity
- 3.7
“Works best on Apple Silicon, which turns your privacy principles into a laptop procurement request.”
Refact.ai
Refact.ai (Small Magellanic Cloud AI) · IDE extension
#192OSSMCP
Panel
5.38 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.0
- Usefulness
- 5.3
- Cost
- 7.3
- Longevity
- 3.3
“Ships eight agent modes including one called buddy, for when the other seven feel too professional.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Llama Coder | Refact.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | IDE extension | IDE extension |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Code Llama | Claude, GPT, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | byok |
| Starts at | n/a | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | No | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | BSD-3-Clause |
| GitHub stars | 2,087 | 69 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Llama Coder | Refact.ai | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 5.3 | 5.5 | Refact.ai — Pick Refact if you want Explore, Plan and Agent modes served from a process on your own machine and you are fine being one of a few dozen users; pick Cline if you want the same freedom with a crowd. |
| El Crítico | 4.5 | 5.3 | Refact.ai — The upstream repository smallcloudai/refact is archived and development lives in a personal fork, JegernOUTT/refact, which is a bus factor you can count on one hand. |
| El Profesor | 5.3 | 6.0 | Refact.ai — One Rust binary supervises a warm worker per project, gathers context from AST and semantic search over a local vector index, and applies edits through apply_patch; principled. |
| La Inversora | 4.0 | 3.0 | Llama Coder — There is no company: one named individual publishing an extension with no pricing, no hosted service and roughly 2,100 stars, so the only exit here is a fork. |
| La Jefa | 4.8 | 4.0 | Llama Coder — The software is free and the real invoice is hardware: sixteen gigabytes of memory per developer machine, which is a refresh cycle, not a line item. |
| El Hacker | 7.3 | 7.8 | Refact.ai — BSD-3-Clause, providers in ~/.config/refact/ including Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM and even GitHub Copilot as a backend, project state in .refact/, MCP documented in the wiki; entirely mine. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.