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AI tools for CLI / terminal

48 tools available on CLI / terminal.

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WA

Warp

Coding · Multi-model: OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Amazon Bedrock, plus BYO via OpenRouter and LiteLLM
8.8

The agentic development environment, from the terminal up

Freemium· Free: $0/month · Build: $20/month · Max: $200/month · Business: $50/user /month · Enterprise: CustomAgentic debugging of failing builds and testsNatural-language shell command generation
CL

Cline

Coding · Model-agnostic: Claude (Anthropic), GPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, Cerebras, plus local Ollama/LM Studio
8.7

Open-source agentic coding assistant that plans, edits, and runs code inside your IDE

Freemium· ClinePass: $9.99/monthMulti-file feature scaffoldingLarge-scale refactors
MO

Modal

Fine-tuning · Infrastructure (any model you can host)
8.7

Serverless GPUs and infra for training & serving ML.

Freemium· $30/mo free credits; pay-as-you-go GPU ratesserverless GPUfine-tuning
GV

Google Vertex AI

Agents · Gemini 2.5 (Pro/Flash/Nano), Imagen, Veo, Chirp, plus Model Garden (Llama, Mistral, Claude via partner)
8.6

Google Cloud's unified platform for building, deploying, and scaling enterprise AI agents and models.

Paid· Image Data - Training (Classification): $3.465 / 1 hour · Image Data - Training (Object Detection): $3.465 / 1 hour · Image Data - Deployment and Online Prediction: $1.375 / 1 hour · Image Data - Batch Prediction: $2.222 / 1 hour · Tabular Data - Training (Classification/Regression): $21.252 / 1 hourEnterprise RAG chatbotMulti-agent customer service
AI

Aider

Coding · BYO (Claude / GPT-4 / Gemini / DeepSeek)
8.4

Terminal-based AI pair programmer that writes commits.

Free· Free / open-source; you pay the underlying LLM API costsCLIgit workflow
SC

ScrapeGraphAI

Agents · Multi-model (LLM, unspecified)
8.4

LLM-driven web scraping API that turns natural-language prompts into structured JSON.

Freemium· Free 500 credits; Starter $20/mo, Growth $100/mo, Pro $500/mo, Enterprise customweb-scrapingdata-extraction
ZE

Zed

Coding · Claude (Sonnet/Opus), GPT-4o/5, Gemini, Ollama-hosted local models, and Zed's own Zeta2 open-weight edit-prediction model
8.4

A high-performance, multiplayer code editor built in Rust with native AI agent workflows.

Freemium· Personal: $0 · Pro: $10 · Business: $30AI pair-programming with Claude or GPT agentsInline code refactoring via natural-language prompts
L3

Llama 3

Writing · Llama 3 / 3.1 (8B, 70B, 405B)
8.3

Meta's open-weights LLM family that put serious frontier-adjacent models in everyone's hands.

Free· Weights free under Meta Llama Community License; inference cost via self-hosting or 3rd-party providerschatlong-context reasoning
LS

LM Studio

Agents · Multi-model (gpt-oss, Qwen3, Gemma, DeepSeek-R1, Llama, others)
8.3

Desktop app for discovering, downloading, and running open-weight LLMs locally with an OpenAI-compatible server.

Freemium· Free: $0local-llm-inferenceprivate-chat
CC

Claude Code

Coding · Claude (Opus / Sonnet / Haiku)
8.2

Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads, edits, and ships code from the terminal, IDE, or web.

Freemium· Free: $0 · Pro: $20 · Max 5x: $100 · Max 20x: $100 · Standard seat: $20agentic-codingcodebase-refactor
HA

Hermes Agent

Agents · Multi-model (300+ via Nous Portal)
8.2

Open-source multi-channel AI agent with persistent memory, scheduling, and subagent delegation from Nous Research.

Freemium· MIT-licensed self-host free; managed Portal tiers Free/Plus/Super/Ultra with creditspersonal-assistanttask-automation
HY

HyperFrames

Video · Multi-model (Claude Code skill; BYO agent)
8.2

Open-source video composition framework that lets AI agents build videos by writing HTML, CSS, and JS.

Free· Free, open-source (Apache 2.0)agent-driven videoprogrammatic video
LI

LibreChat

Writing · Multi-model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Ollama, and others)
8.2

Open-source, self-hostable ChatGPT-style frontend that brings every major LLM provider under one roof.

Free· Free and open source; self-hosted (you pay model providers for API usage)multi-model chatself-hosted chatgpt
VE

Vellum

Agents · Multi-model (Claude-class LLMs)
8.2

Personal AI assistant with persistent memory across email, calendar, and chat channels.

Freemium· Mighty: $30 · Super: $100 · Ultra: $200personal assistantemail triage
CH

Chroma

RAG · Hosted vector DB (not an LLM)
8.1

Embedded, developer-friendly vector store for Python.

Freemium· Starter: $0 · Team: $250 · Enterprise: Customprototypingembedded RAG
HO

HoneyHive

Evaluation · Multi-model
8.1

OpenTelemetry-native observability and evaluation platform for LLM agents in production.

Freemium· Free tier available; paid/enterprise tiers via salesagent-observabilityllm-evaluation
LA

Lambda

Fine-tuning · NVIDIA VR200 NVL72, NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, NVIDIA HGX B200, NVIDIA HGX B300, NVIDIA H100
8.1

On-demand NVIDIA GPU cloud built specifically for training, fine-tuning, and serving large AI models.

Paid· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salesllm-trainingfine-tuning
OE

OpenAI Evals

Evaluation · OpenAI GPT models (extensible)
8.1

OpenAI's open-source framework for benchmarking LLMs against a shared registry of evaluations.

Free· Free (MIT); you pay OpenAI API costs for eval runsllm-benchmarkingregression-testing
RE

Repomix

Coding · ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok
8.1

Packs an entire codebase into a single AI-friendly file so LLMs can actually read your repo.

Free· Free and open source (MIT)codebase-to-llmcode-review
TR

TruLens

Evaluation · Multi-model (LLM-as-judge)
8.1

Open-source evaluation and tracing framework for LLM apps and agents, built on OpenTelemetry.

Free· Free, open source (Apache-licensed Python package)llm-evaluationrag-evaluation
WI

Windsurf

Coding · SWE-1.6 Fast (plus Claude Agent, OpenCode via ACP)
8.1

AI-native IDE turned agent command center, now folded into Cognition's Devin lineup.

Freemium· Free; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/seat; Enterprise customai-idecoding-agents
CA

CAMEL-AI

Agents · Multi-model
8.0

Open-source Python framework for building multi-agent systems and synthetic data pipelines.

Free· Free, open-source; pay for the underlying LLM API callsmulti-agent-systemssynthetic-data-generation
FI

Firecrawl

RAG · Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI, Gemini
8.0

Web scraping and crawling API that returns LLM-ready markdown, JSON, or structured data from any URL.

Freemium· Free Plan: $0 · Hobby: $16 · Standard: $83 · Growth: $333 · Scale: $599/monthlyweb-scrapingrag-ingestion
GC

Gemini CLI

Agents · Gemini 3
8.0

Google's open-source terminal agent that brings Gemini 3 into your shell for codebase edits and workflow automation.

Freemium· Free tier with Google account; paid via Google One / AI subscriptionsterminal-coding-agentcodebase-editing
OP

OpenHands

Agents · Multi-model (Claude, Gemini, GPT/Codex)
8.0

Open-source autonomous coding agent that plans, edits, and ships changes across real codebases.

Freemium· Open Source: Free · Individual: Free · Enterprise: Custom pricingautonomous-codingpr-review
DV

DVC

Coding
7.9

Git-style version control for datasets, ML models, and experiment pipelines.

Free· Free and open source; lakeFS Enterprise available for large-scale deploymentsdata-versioningml-experiment-tracking
KH

Khoj

Agents · Multi-model
7.9

Open-source personal AI that builds agents, searches your documents, and automates research across local files and the web.

Freemium· Free self-hosted; paid cloud tier on app.khoj.devpersonal-knowledge-baseagent-building
OM

oMLX

Coding · Multi-model (Qwen, Llama, Mistral, Gemma, DeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM)
7.5

Native macOS LLM inference server built on MLX, with paged SSD KV caching for Apple Silicon agents.

Free· Free, Apache 2.0 open sourcelocal-llm-inferencecoding-agents
ST

STORM

Writing · Multi-model (via LiteLLM)
7.5

Stanford's open-source research agent that turns a topic into a Wikipedia-style article with citations.

Free· Hosted demo free; self-host open-source (pay your own LLM/search API)long-form researchwikipedia-style articles
OP

OpenCLI

Agents · GPT-3, GPT-2
7.4

Open-source bridge that hands your already-logged-in Chrome session to a CLI and AI agents.

Free· Free and open-source (Apache-2.0)browser-automationagent-tooling
AG

AgentMemory

Agents · Multi-model (Claude, Gemini, MiniMax, OpenRouter)
7.3

Open-source persistent memory runtime for AI coding agents, with hybrid retrieval and zero external dependencies.

Free· Free, open-source (Apache 2.0); bring your own LLM API keyagent-memorycoding-agents
DI

Dia

Audio · Dia-1.6B
7.3

Open-weights 1.6B text-to-dialogue model that generates ultra-realistic multi-speaker conversations in one pass.

Free· Free, open weights (Apache 2.0); hosted larger version waitlisteddialogue-generationvoice-cloning
GP

Guizang PPT Skill

Agents · Multi-model (Claude, Codex, GPT-Image)
7.3

Claude Code / Codex agent skill that generates single-file HTML slide decks in editorial-magazine or Swiss-design styles.

Free· Free, AGPL-3.0; requires a host AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.)html-slide-deckspresentation-design
MM

MMagic

Image Generation · Multi-model (Stable Diffusion, ControlNet, StyleGAN, GANs, diffusion)
7.3

OpenMMLab's research-grade toolbox for image and video generation, restoration, and editing.

Free· Free and open source (Apache 2.0)text-to-imagesuper-resolution
OO

omp (Oh My Pi)

Coding · Multi-model (Claude, OpenAI, others)
7.3

Open-source terminal coding agent with LSP, DAP, subagents, and a native Rust execution engine.

Free· MIT open source; bring your own LLM API keyterminal-coding-agentrefactoring
SE

Sematic

Agents
7.3

Open-source Python-first orchestrator for ML training pipelines from laptop to cloud.

Freemium· Open-source free; managed/enterprise tier on requestml-pipelinestraining-orchestration
DL

Deep Live Cam

Video · inswapper_128 + GFPGANv1.4
7.2

Open-source real-time face-swap and one-click video deepfake from a single source image.

Freemium· Free open-source build on GitHub; paid pre-built Windows package on deeplivecam.netface-swaplive-deepfake
FF

FinChat (Fiscal.ai)

RAG · Multi-model (proprietary finance-tuned copilot)
7.2

AI copilot for equity research that reads filings, transcripts, and KPI tables across 100,000+ public companies.

Freemium· Free; Pro $39/mo (annual) or $49/mo; Max and Enterprise API tiers aboveequity-researchearnings-call-analysis
GE

Geniusrise

Agents · Multi-model
7.2

Open-source framework for building, deploying, and scaling AI microservices across text, vision, and audio.

Free· Free, open source; self-hostedinference-servingfine-tuning
HO

Hermes One

Agents · Multi-model (BYO via OpenRouter/OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini/xAI/Ollama)
7.2

Open-source desktop AI agent with a self-improving learning loop and multi-platform messaging connectors.

Free· Free, MIT-licensed; you pay your own model inference costsautonomous-agentschat-ops
HA

HTML Anything

Coding · Multi-model (uses your local coding agent CLI)
7.2

Agentic HTML editor that turns markdown, CSV, and JSON into ship-ready posts for WeChat, X, Zhihu, and Xiaohongshu.

Free· Free, open-source (Apache-2.0); bring-your-own coding agenthtml-generationcontent-publishing
IA

Inspect AI

Evaluation · Multi-model
7.2

Open-source LLM evaluation framework from the UK AI Security Institute with 200+ built-in benchmarks.

Free· Free and open source (MIT-style license); you pay only for underlying model API usage.llm-benchmarkingagent-evaluation
KE

Keploy

Coding
7.2

Open-source AI testing platform that records real API traffic and replays it as regression tests in CI.

Freemium· Free playground (30 suites, 5 AI credits/mo); Pro $24/user/mo; Enterprise customapi-testingregression-testing
KC

Kilo Code

Coding · Multi-model (500+ via BYO keys or routing)
7.2

Open-source agentic coding assistant for VS Code, JetBrains, and the terminal with bring-your-own-key routing across 500+ models.

Freemium· Free & Open Source: Free · Teams: $15/user/month · Enterprise: Custom · Kilo Pass: $19/mo · Kilo Pass: $19/moai-pair-programmingcode-review
LB

LLM by Datasette

Coding · Multi-model
7.2

A CLI and Python library for running prompts against any LLM provider and logging everything to SQLite.

Free· Free and open source (Apache 2.0); pay underlying model providers separatelycli-promptingprompt-logging
OL

Ollama

Coding · Multi-model (Llama, Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek, Mistral, Phi, etc.)
7.2

The de facto runtime for running open-weights LLMs locally, now with a paid cloud tier for bigger models.

Freemium· Free local; Pro $20/mo; Max $100/molocal-llmself-hosted-inference
OD

Open Deep Research

Agents · o3-mini (default), DeepSeek R1, or any OpenAI-compatible model
7.2

Minimal open-source deep-research agent that iteratively searches, scrapes, and reasons to produce cited markdown reports.

Free· Free (MIT); bring your own Firecrawl + LLM API keysdeep-researchagent-scaffolding
PR

Promptfoo

Evaluation · Multi-model
7.2

Open-source eval and red-teaming framework for LLM apps, prompts, and RAG pipelines.

Freemium· Community: Free · Enterprise: Custom · On-Premise: Customllm-evalsred-teaming