The best CC Switch alternatives
8 tools that do a similar job to CC Switch, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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CC SwitchDesktop app to switch API providers and manage MCP, Skills, and prompts for AI coding agents.
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Orca
Open source · MIT · ★ 113k
A desktop app for running several coding agents side by side, each in its own git worktree.
Best for: Developers who already use CLI coding agents and want to run several at once; People who want to compare outputs from different agents on the same prompt
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ego lite
Open source · MIT · ★ 21.3k
A browser built for AI agents to run web tasks in their own workspaces beside your own browsing.
Best for: Developers who use Claude Code, Codex, or similar agent CLIs and want them to act in a logged-in browser; People who want agents to automate web tasks without taking over their own browser window
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Claudian
Open source · MIT · ★ 15.9k
An Obsidian plugin that puts an AI coding agent inside your notes vault as a chat sidebar.
Best for: Obsidian users who already use Claude Code or Codex and want that agent inside their notes; People who want an AI to edit or reorganize many notes in a folder at once
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Paperclip
Open source · MIT · ★ 110k
Open-source Node.js and React app for organizing teams of AI agents around goals, tasks, and budgets.
Best for: Developers already running several AI coding agents who want one place to track them; Small teams experimenting with autonomous agents that need budgets and approval steps
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MindsHub
Open source · MIT · ★ 39.8k
An open-source agent workspace for knowledge work and software, with a choice of models.
Best for: Knowledge workers who want to automate reading and writing tasks like reports and recurring workflows; Developers who want to build and run the full MindsHub stack from source
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codex-chatgpt-web
Open source · MIT · ★ 15.4k
Lets Codex use your signed-in ChatGPT Web models (including Pro) as its model, without using Codex quota.
Best for: Developers who already pay for ChatGPT and want to use its web models inside Codex; People who want Codex's model picker to include ChatGPT Web models, including Pro versions where the account exposes them
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OmniRoute
Open source · MIT · ★ 83.8k
A free, MIT-licensed gateway that routes one API endpoint to many AI model providers.
Best for: Developers who use several AI coding tools and want one place to configure providers; People who want to connect their own free-tier provider accounts and spread requests across them
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CLIProxyAPI
Open source · MIT · ★ 57.3k
A local proxy server that exposes CLI and web AI accounts as OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude compatible APIs.
Best for: Developers who already use OpenAI- or Claude-compatible tools and want to route them to other providers; People who hold several CLI accounts and want one local endpoint for them
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to CC Switch. We don't take payment for placement.