olivsOpenClaude
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
oli
amrit110 · Terminal agent
#184OSS
Panel
5.40 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.7
- Usefulness
- 4.8
- Cost
- 7.8
- Longevity
- 4.2
“The name stands for Open Local Intelligent assistant, an acronym that clearly had to work for it.”
OpenClaude
Gitlawb · Terminal agent
#225OSSMCP
Panel
5.35 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.8
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 6.7
- Longevity
- 3.7
“/buddy hatches a pixel-art archer who fires an arrow every time you press Enter, which is more feedback than most agents give.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | oli | OpenClaude |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Ollama | OpenAI, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, Gemini, GitHub Models, Codex, GLM, Fireworks, Ollama, LM Studio |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesOllama models with function calling, such as Qwen 2.5 Coder, are supported for full tool use. | Yes |
| 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 (contributor modifications; derived Claude Code portions remain Anthropic's) |
| GitHub stars | 244 | 33,610 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | oli | OpenClaude | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 5.3 | 6.0 | OpenClaude — Pick OpenClaude if you liked Claude Code's workflow and your budget or your models live on DeepSeek, Groq, GLM or a local server; pick OpenCode if you want a clean-room agent without the ancestry. |
| El Crítico | 5.0 | 5.3 | OpenClaude — A fresh install defaults to Gitlawb Opengateway, which requires a key from the maintainer's own site; the forked-conversation feature is documented candidly as branching with no filesystem isolation. |
| El Profesor | 6.3 | 5.0 | oli — The agent loop, tool execution and provider calls live in a compiled backend addressed over JSON-RPC, so the interface is a client rather than the program. |
| La Inversora | 4.8 | 4.5 | oli — 245 stars, a permissive licence, one author and no entity: this is a personal engineering exercise published openly, and it is priced accordingly at nothing. |
| La Jefa | 4.0 | 4.8 | OpenClaude — Free, no SSO or audit trail, credentials saved in a per-project profile file, a headless gRPC server started with a dev script, and a Copilot route that serialises subagents to save premium requests. |
| El Hacker | 7.0 | 6.5 | oli — Apache-2.0, and local models with function calling are supported for full tool use rather than chat only, with Qwen 2.5 Coder named as one that actually works. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.