The best Claude HUD alternatives
6 tools that do a similar job to Claude HUD, 6 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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Claude HUDA status line plugin for Claude Code that shows context use, rate limits, active tools, agents, and todos.
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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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MCP for Unity
Open source · MIT · ★ 15.6k
Lets AI assistants like Claude or Cursor control the Unity Editor: scenes, scripts, assets, and tests.
Best for: Unity developers who want to prototype scenes by describing them in plain language; Developers who already use an MCP-compatible AI client such as Claude, Cursor, or VS Code
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LibreChat
Open source · MIT · ★ 46.6k
Self-hosted, open-source chat interface for many AI models, with agents, tools, and multi-user login.
Best for: Teams that want one shared chat interface across several AI providers; People who want to self-host a ChatGPT-style interface and keep their data on their own server
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AI Website Cloner
Open source · MIT · ★ 38.4k
A template that has an AI coding agent copy a website into a clean Next.js app.
Best for: Developers who want a working Next.js starting point for a site they already own; Teams migrating a site off WordPress, Webflow, or Squarespace
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CRS
Open source · MIT · ★ 12.8k
Self-hosted relay that lets a small group share Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Droid subscriptions through one ser
Best for: Developers comfortable running a Node.js server and Redis themselves; Small groups who want to split one shared Claude subscription with known members
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vim-airline
Open source · MIT · ★ 18k
A lightweight status and tab line for Vim that shows mode, file, and position info.
Best for: Vim users who want a clearer status bar without heavy configuration; People who use plugins like fugitive, ctrlp, or tagbar and want them integrated into the status line
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 Claude HUD. We don't take payment for placement.