49Agents alternatives.
49Agents is a web canvas of tmux terminals, git graphs, issue tables and files that spans your machines, free to self-host. People look elsewhere when they want a Mac app instead of a server to keep running, free and open source as a desktop app, a worktree and diff review for every task, or browser previews beside the agents.
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The alternatives.
8 apps for running coding agents. Starkomand is ours, so it comes first; the rest follow the order of the comparison table.
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StarkomandOursYour CLIs in real terminal windows on one canvas, with the tools around them.
- Price
- $49 to $169 once, per Mac, with a year of updates. Free for 3 days.Launch prices, set by seats sold. See the ladder.
- Platform
- macOS on Apple silicon.
- The CLI
- The real TUI in a real pty. Flags, slash commands, keybindings and config, untouched.
Pick it if you want every CLI you run in a real terminal, all of them in view on one canvas, with recaps, diagrams, briefs, voice and issue notes around them, for one price per Mac.
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AgentGrid
Master and worker agents in panes on a canvas, with a coordinator chat.
- Price
- Free: 3 projects, up to 10 agents each. Pro $16 a month, billed $192 a year.
- Platform
- macOS, Windows, Linux.
- The CLI
- Terminal panes.
Pick it if you work on Windows or Linux, want a master agent coordinating workers from one chat, or need cloud sync between machines.
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Maestri
Agents as connected terminals on a canvas that message each other.
- Price
- Free: 1 workspace. Pro $18 once, up to 2 Macs.
- Platform
- macOS 15.4 and later. Windows and Linux listed.
- The CLI
- Terminals.
Pick it if the lowest price wins, you want a native Swift app, or portals to simulators and devices beside the agents.
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Conductor
Parallel agents in a chat pane, one git worktree each.
- Price
- Free locally. Pro $50 a month for cloud hours and multiplayer.
- Platform
- macOS. Windows on a waitlist.
- The CLI
- A chat pane built on the SDK, with a terminal in the side panel.
Pick it if you prefer a chat pane to the terminal, want a worktree per agent with diff review and merge built in, or need cloud workspaces and multiplayer.
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Superset
Workspaces for coding agents, a git worktree each, with a status list, diff review, automations and remote hosts.
- Price
- Free for one user with local workspaces. Pro $20 a user a month, or $15 billed yearly, for remote access, automations and mobile.
- Platform
- macOS. Linux as an experimental AppImage. An iPhone and iPad app to check in.
- The CLI
- The agent’s own CLI in terminal panes.
Pick it if you want a git worktree and diff review for every task, agents on remote hosts or on a schedule, a phone app to check in from, or one plan your whole team shares.
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Emdash
A desktop app that gives each task’s agent its own git worktree, with diff review, automations and a built-in browser.
- Price
- Free and open source (Apache 2.0). Cloud and Enterprise plans: get in touch.
- Platform
- macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows, Linux.
- The CLI
- The agent’s own CLI in a terminal, one per task.
Pick it if you want free and open source, work on Windows or Linux, want a git worktree, diff review and pull request for every task, or run agents on an SSH host or on a schedule.
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CNVS
Agent terminals on a native Mac canvas, directed by voice, with a fleet briefing and iPhone alerts.
- Price
- Founder seats $99 once, then $129 and $169 by seat number. All 1.x updates. No trial advertised.
- Platform
- macOS, native Swift.
- The CLI
- Terminals.
Pick it if you want to talk to your agents all day, want a push to your iPhone when one needs you, or a native Swift app matters more to you than the rest.
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Zeron
Agent sessions as chats in tabs of one native window, listed across all your machines, with a live branch diff.
- Price
- Free and open source (MIT). Funded by sponsors.
- Platform
- macOS (Apple silicon), Windows, Linux, native Rust. iPhone and iPad coming.
- The CLI
- Its own chat view over each agent’s protocol (stream-json, app-server, ACP), with a terminal panel beside it.
Pick it if you want free and open source, work on Windows or Linux too, prefer a chat view with a diff sidebar to the terminal, or want to start an agent at your desk and steer it from another machine.
Alternatives toAgentGridMaestriConductorSupersetEmdashCNVSZeron
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Prices and features are from each product’s public pages on 28 September 2026 (Superset and Emdash on 9 October 2026) and may have changed since; product names belong to their owners. Spotted a change? Tell us.
Questions
Which 49Agents alternatives are free?
AgentGrid is free for 3 projects, Maestri is free for 1 workspace, Conductor is free locally, Superset is free for one user, Emdash is free and open source (Apache 2.0) and Zeron is free and open source (MIT). Starkomand is one payment per Mac, after 3 free days with every feature.
Which 49Agents alternatives run on Windows or Linux?
Beyond macOS: AgentGrid (Windows and Linux), Maestri (Windows and Linux builds), Superset (Linux, as an experimental AppImage), Emdash (Windows and Linux) and Zeron (Windows and Linux). Starkomand runs on macOS with Apple silicon only, for now.
Which 49Agents alternatives keep the agent’s own CLI?
Starkomand, AgentGrid, Maestri, Superset, Emdash and CNVS run the agent’s own CLI in a terminal. Conductor and Zeron draw their own chat view over it instead.
What is the closest alternative to 49Agents?
AgentGrid and Starkomand, the other canvases built around terminals. AgentGrid runs on every desktop and has a free tier; Starkomand is a Mac app with recaps, diagrams, briefs, voice and browser previews around the terminals.
Try it against your own setup.
Every feature, every provider, free for 3 days. Your CLIs are already installed; the canvas takes a minute.
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