Every option in the catalog for when you need to let an agent run commands and edit files from your shell — 17 terminal and CLI coding agents, 16 of them free or freemium, with the pricing tier printed on every row.
Flocci AI Tools lists 17 of them, ordered free tiers first: Aider, Cline, Crush, Gemini CLI and Goose. 16 of the 17 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.
10 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Aider, Cline, Crush, Gemini CLI and Goose. The remaining 7 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.
Free tools first, then freemium, then trial, then paid, and alphabetically inside each tier. Nobody pays to appear higher: Flocci AI Tools carries no ads, no sponsored slots and no paid listings, so the order reflects price and nothing else.
Freebuff works in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 1 of the 16 free terminal and CLI coding agents listed here are browser-based.
Gemini CLI, Freebuff, GitHub Copilot CLI and Kilo Code support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 4 of the 16 free terminal and CLI coding agents on this page.
Aider, Cline, Crush, Gemini CLI and Goose can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 14 of the 16 free terminal and CLI coding agents here run offline.
| Tool | Pricing | Type | Listed for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Open-source AI pair programmer in your terminal |
| Cline | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code |
| Crush | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Terminal coding agent from Charm with LSP-aware context |
| Gemini CLI | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Open-source terminal agent from Google |
| Goose | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Open-source agent (now under Agentic AI Foundation/Linux Foundation) usable as CLI, desktop app or API |
| Kimi Code CLI | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | MIT-licensed terminal coding agent from Moonshot AI that edits files, runs shell commands and uses MCP |
| Mistral Vibe | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Apache-2.0 minimal terminal coding agent built around Devstral models |
| OpenCode | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Fully open-source terminal/IDE/desktop coding agent, MIT licensed |
| Qwen Code | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Open-source terminal CLI adapted from Gemini CLI, tuned for Qwen3-Coder models |
| Trae Agent | Free | Terminal & CLI Agents | Open-source CLI agent for general software-engineering tasks |
| Freebuff | Freemium | Terminal & CLI Agents | Terminal coding agent that needs no API key, subscription or card; funded by small text ads shown in the CLI |
| Amp | Freemium | Terminal & CLI Agents | Multi-model routing across frontier models with no artificial usage caps |
| GitHub Copilot CLI | Freemium | Terminal & CLI Agents | GitHub-native terminal agent that works directly with issues and PRs |
| Kilo Code | Freemium | Terminal & CLI Agents | Same open-source agent usable in VS Code, JetBrains, CLI and cloud from one account |
| OpenAI Codex CLI | Freemium | Terminal & CLI Agents | #1 on Terminal-Bench with GPT-5-series |
| Warp | Freemium | Terminal & CLI Agents | Terminal rebuilt as an agentic development environment for any coding agent |
| Claude Code | Paid | Terminal & CLI Agents | Terminal-native agent, best on large codebases |