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Plandex
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Plandex
Terminal-based AI dev agent for large tasks.
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Best for
Best for senior engineers who want an autonomous coding agent that can survive a 50-step task.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemium
- Setup time
- 20 minutes
- Learning curve
- moderate
- Last verified
- 5/25/2026
What we love
- ✓Handles much larger scope than chat-based copilots
- ✓Sandbox + diff review prevents bad commits
- ✓Self-host option for sensitive code
Where it falls short
- −CLI-only UX is unfamiliar to many devs
- −Cloud pricing climbs with token use
- −Smaller community than Aider
Pricing
2 tiers
Free (self-host)
$0
forever
- ✓Self-hosted
- ✓BYO API key
Cloud
Usage
per token
- ✓Hosted
- ✓Team sharing
Overview
Plandex is an open-source CLI agent that handles long, multi-step coding tasks across many files. Built around context management and reversible sandbox edits — designed for tasks too big for Cursor's single-shot.
Key features
- ●Multi-file project planning
- ●Reversible sandbox edits
- ●Context tier management
- ●Cloud and self-hosted
- ●Terminal-native UX
Best use cases
Multi-file refactors
Plan and execute a refactor spanning 30+ files with reviewable diffs at each stage.
Greenfield prototyping
Bootstrap a working prototype across frontend, backend, and infra in one session.
Integrations
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