Plandex
An open-source terminal coding agent for large, multi-step tasks across many files.
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Large refactors or features where you want to review a whole change set before it touches your files.
About Plandex
Plandex is a terminal-based AI development tool that plans and executes large coding tasks spanning many steps and dozens of files. It handles up to 2 million tokens of context directly and indexes much larger directories with tree-sitter project maps, keeps AI changes in a cumulative diff review sandbox until you accept them, controls command execution for easy rollback, and combines models from several providers. A local self-hosted mode is available.
Plandex is an open-source project written primarily in Go, with 16k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in October 2025.
Plandex vs. the alternatives
All 49 alternatives →| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plandexthis listing | 16k | Go | MIT | Open source |
| OpenCode | 210k | — | MIT | Open source |
| gemini-cli | 107k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| Zed | 91k | Rust | GPL-3.0-or-later | Open source |
| OpenHands | 89k | — | MIT | Open source |
| Cline | 69k | — | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
