Conductor alternatives.
Conductor gives each agent a chat pane and its own git worktree, with diff review and merge built in, free locally and $50 a month for cloud hours and multiplayer. People look elsewhere when they want the CLI’s own screen instead of a chat pane, every agent in view at once, open source, or Windows and Linux.
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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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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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49Agents
Terminals, git graphs, issue tables and files on one web canvas, across your machines.
- Price
- Free to self-host for individuals and small teams (BSL 1.1). Company plan with hosting: talk to sales. Coworking marked coming soon.
- Platform
- Any browser against a self-hosted server (Node, tmux, ttyd). Mac menu bar app, not notarized.
- The CLI
- Real tmux sessions through ttyd, in the browser.
Pick it if you want open source and free, run agents on several machines and want them all on one canvas without SSH, or want a shared team canvas once coworking ships.
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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 toAgentGridMaestriSupersetEmdashCNVS49AgentsZeron
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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 Conductor alternatives are free?
AgentGrid is free for 3 projects, Maestri is free for 1 workspace, Superset is free for one user, Emdash is free and open source (Apache 2.0), 49Agents is free to self-host (BSL 1.1) and Zeron is free and open source (MIT). Starkomand is one payment per Mac, after 3 free days with every feature.
Which Conductor 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), 49Agents (any browser, against a server you host) and Zeron (Windows and Linux). Starkomand runs on macOS with Apple silicon only, for now.
Which Conductor alternatives keep the agent’s own CLI?
Starkomand, AgentGrid, Maestri, Superset, Emdash, CNVS and 49Agents run the agent’s own CLI in a terminal. Zeron draws its own chat view over it instead.
What is the closest alternative to Conductor?
Superset and Emdash. Both give every task a git worktree with diff review, like Conductor, but run the agent’s own CLI in a terminal instead of a chat pane. Superset is free for one user; Emdash is free and open source.
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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