AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ShellMate AI
While "burning tokens" isn't necessarily a good thing, I thought it worthwhile to throw together a quick leaderboard to track the dev setups of the top HN token burners. Jesse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Vincent), Wes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_McKinney), and Harper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Reed) are using it to report their Claude/Codex usage.
ShellMate AI is a lightweight, open-source Mac terminal application that uses OpenAI to enhance command-line productivity. It observes user activity to detect errors, suggest fixes, and recommend next commands before… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier. ShellMate AI launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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Scored 65.2% vs google's official 47.8%, and the existing top closed source model Junie CLI's 64.3%. Since there are a lot of reports of deliberate cheating on TerminalBench 2.0 lately (https://debugml.github.io/cheating-agents/), I would like to also clarify a few things 1. Absolutely no {agents/skills}.md files were inserted at any point. No cheating mechanisms whatsoever 2. The cli agent was run in leaderboard compliant way (no modification of resources or timeouts) 3. The full terminal bench run was done using the fully open source version of the agent, no…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WritingMate.ai▲476A chrome extension that allows you to communicate with GPT-4 Turbo in a context of the webpage and export results in Google Workspace tools
2023 · writingmate.ai · its alternatives →
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Writingmate▲454AI copilot for Google Docs, Slides, Sheets with 20k+ users
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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jebi▲140A supercharged terminal for Mac with built-in local AI
Jun 2026 · jebi.sh · its alternatives →
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ShellMate▲126Manage SSH servers, credentials, and teams in one place
Jun 2026 · shellmate.net · its alternatives →
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Spotify Wrapped for Claude, Codex & a Public leaderboard.
Jun 2026 · whoburnedmore.com · its alternatives →
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Cline Desktop Appfree tier▲265An open-source app for open-weight models
Sep 2026 · cline.bot · its alternatives →
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Code interpreter with API, internet, multiplayer, open LLMs
2023 · its alternatives →
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Your AI agent is burning 6x more tokens than it needs to just to browse the web. We built OpenBrowser MCP to fix that. Most browser MCPs give the LLM dozens of tools: click, scroll, type, extract, navigate. Each call dumps the entire page accessibility tree into the context window. One Wikipedia page? 124K+ tokens. Every. Single. Call. OpenBrowser works differently. It exposes one tool. Your agent writes Python code, and OpenBrowser executes it in a persistent runtime with full browser access. The agent controls what comes back. No bloated page dumps. No wasted tokens. Just the data your…
Apr 2026 · openbrowser.me · its alternatives →
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A copilot for your terminal. Contribute to cloudycotton/whiz development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A delightfully minimal, yet remarkably powerful AI Shell Assistant. - ibigio/shell-ai
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Howdy all. I'm Zack :wave:. I've been thinking about the problem of misguided AI pull requests and figured I'd throw a possible solution out there for feedback. Basically, CleverCrow lets supporters give tokens to a GitHub repo (or set of issues in that repo) for the maintainers to use to build/fix stuff. The fun implementation challenges have been around implementing the pooling dynamics and keeping the maintainers in charge while the backers are motivated to support their work.
Jun 2026 · clevercrow.io · its alternatives →
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I originally was just messing with pi-autoresearch. Gave it a sample task to build the most portable coding agent. First cut was 6 KB of shell. Great for one-shots, unusable interactively. I was shocked it actually worked. Started building up -- adding features — but with a self-imposed rule: no new dependencies, and sub 500 LOC. This thing had to be truly portable. Just sh, curl, awk. System primitives only. Which means I did some genuinely disgusting things in awk, including JSON parsing and the OpenAI Responses tool loop with reasoning items carried across turns. It's now ~400 lines. In…
Apr 2026 · pu.dev · its alternatives →
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Since I mostly work within the terminal, I wanted an AI coding assistant that integrates seamlessly with it. Something I could call from SSH, integrate into scripts or just invoke quickly without leaving the shell. Most existing tools (at the time) were either closed, required various dependencies, or tied to a specific vendor. I wanted a free, open-source alternative that: - installs with a single binary (useful on bare servers) - talks to any LLM endpoint and especially self-hosted open weight model - could run headless, composable, and Unix-like SHAI stands for SHell AI! Along the way I…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tui-use lets agents interact with programs that expect a human at the keyboard — REPLs, debuggers, TUI apps, and anything else bash can't reach. - onesuper/tui-use
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Gofer is a side-project I wrote at 15 because I was sick of these so-called CLI agents. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, they're all wonderful if you're coding. But for those just wanna automate their stuff, it's a dud. Gofer solves this by being terminal-first, meant to accomplish any task a command line can. It can also watch your desktop so you can avoid waiting for downloads to finish, and can text you via. Telegram! Happy to answer any questions :D! -J
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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See what your AI coding agents think, cost and do
Jul 2026 · tokentelemetry.com · its alternatives →
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Save 89% of wasted tokens on your AI coding agent
Mar 2026 · rtk-ai.app · its alternatives →
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GhostCLI▲18A free AI assistant for developers who live in the terminal.
Jun 2026 · ghost-cli.eu.cc · its alternatives →
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