# Best Coding agents — Bring your own key

> Source: https://theagentsindex.com/best/coding-agents/byok (curated, quality-gated, re-verified)

15 of 26 coding agents have a confirmed yes for “Bring your own key”. 8 are qualified or tier-scoped, 2 are confirmed no, and 1 remain not established. Only confirmed yes answers appear in this set; an unknown is never treated as a negative.

| # | Name | What it is | Pricing | API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Aider](https://theagentsindex.com/aider.md) | Open-source terminal pair programmer that edits files in your local git repo and commits each change. | free | No |
| 2 | [Antigravity CLI](https://theagentsindex.com/antigravity-cli.md) | Terminal (TUI) surface for Google Antigravity's coding agents, with parallel subagents and headless scripting. | freemium | Yes |
| 3 | [Claude Code](https://theagentsindex.com/claude-code.md) | Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal, IDEs, desktop, web, CI and Slack | freemium | Yes |
| 4 | [Cline](https://theagentsindex.com/cline.md) | Open-source coding agent for IDEs, terminal and CI, running on any model provider or your own keys. | freemium | Yes |
| 5 | [Codex CLI](https://theagentsindex.com/codex-cli.md) | OpenAI's terminal client for Codex: inspect, edit and run a local repository from the command line. | freemium | Yes |
| 6 | [goose](https://theagentsindex.com/goose.md) | Open source AI agent that runs locally as a desktop app, CLI and API | free | Yes |
| 7 | [Juggler](https://theagentsindex.com/juggler.md) | Open-source desktop workbench for AI coding agents with inspectable tool calls and branching threads | free | No |
| 8 | [Junie](https://theagentsindex.com/junie.md) | JetBrains' coding agent for JetBrains IDEs, the terminal and CI/CD pipelines | paid | Yes |
| 9 | [Kilo Code](https://theagentsindex.com/kilo-code.md) | Open source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI and cloud, with 500+ models at cost | freemium | Yes |
| 10 | [Letta](https://theagentsindex.com/letta.md) | Stateful agent harness with git-backed memory, run from a CLI, desktop app, web, or SDK | freemium | Yes |
| 11 | [OpenCode](https://theagentsindex.com/opencode.md) | Open source AI coding agent for the terminal, IDE and desktop, running any model provider | freemium | Yes |
| 12 | [OpenHands](https://theagentsindex.com/openhands.md) | Open source software engineering agent with GUI, CLI, SDK and an enterprise control plane | freemium | Yes |
| 13 | [Warp](https://theagentsindex.com/warp.md) | Terminal and coding agent, plus a platform that runs the same agent as cloud agents | freemium | Yes |
| 14 | [Zed](https://theagentsindex.com/zed.md) | Open-source Rust code editor with a native agent panel and ACP support for external coding agents | freemium | No |
| 15 | [zot](https://theagentsindex.com/zot.md) | MIT-licensed terminal coding agent shipped as one static Go binary, with 30+ model providers | free | Yes |

## Methodology

Projected from the live listing datasheets using the tenant’s “Your own inference, your own keys, or your own cloud?” axis. Membership requires a sourced yes; partial and unknown answers are reported above but excluded from the ranking. Entries retain the directory’s paid-tier ordering, visibly labelled on every promoted card.