# Best Coding agents — Self-hosted

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

9 of 28 coding agents have a confirmed yes for “Self-hosted”. 15 are qualified or tier-scoped, 4 are confirmed no, and 0 remain not established. Only confirmed yes answers appear in this set; an unknown is never treated as a negative.

This is not an arbitrary slice of coding agents. Among the ones with a confirmed yes for “Self-hosted”, only 0 of 9 answer yes on seat model, against 15 of 19 across the rest; only 4 of 9 answer yes on how it meters, against 19 of 19 across the rest; and only 4 of 9 answer yes on a company can buy it, against 19 of 19 across the rest. Every figure is counted from the stored, sourced datasheet answers linked on each row.

Self-hosted is a deployment question, not a license question. Every tool on this page happens to also be open-source, but what actually varies is how much operational work self-hosting demands: a single static binary you run locally (Zot), a CLI you point at your own infra (Aider, Cline), or a platform built for a real self-managed, sandboxed deployment (OpenHands) rather than a one-person local setup. If deployment control and data sovereignty are the actual requirement, that's the axis to compare on here, ahead of license terms.

| # | Name | What it is | Pricing | API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [WTAgent](https://theagentsindex.com/wtagent.md) | Open-source CLI that drives your existing ChatGPT, Claude or DeepSeek web session as a local coding agent. | free | No |
| 2 | [goose](https://theagentsindex.com/goose.md) | Open-source local AI agent — desktop app, CLI and ACP server — running on the LLM provider you bring. | free | Yes |
| 3 | [Letta](https://theagentsindex.com/letta.md) | Stateful agent harness, cloud and SDK for agents with persistent, git-versioned memory. | freemium | Yes |
| 4 | [OpenCode](https://theagentsindex.com/opencode.md) | Open source AI coding agent for the terminal, desktop app and IDE, with 75+ model providers. | freemium | Yes |
| 5 | [zot](https://theagentsindex.com/zot.md) | Single-binary terminal coding agent harness in Go, with 30+ model providers and any-language extensions. | free | Yes |
| 6 | [Juggler](https://theagentsindex.com/juggler.md) | Visual workbench for AI coding agents: branching conversation trees, inspectable model transactions, local or remote. | free | No |
| 7 | [OpenHands](https://theagentsindex.com/openhands.md) | Open-source software engineering agent with GUI, CLI, SDK and an enterprise control plane. | freemium | Yes |
| 8 | [Aider](https://theagentsindex.com/aider.md) | Open-source terminal AI pair programmer that edits files in your local git repo and commits the changes. | free | Yes |
| 9 | [Cline](https://theagentsindex.com/cline.md) | Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal and CI, running on whichever model you bring. | freemium | Yes |

## Methodology

Projected from the live listing datasheets using the tenant’s “Can you run it on your own infrastructure?” axis. Membership requires a sourced yes; partial and unknown answers are reported above but excluded from the ranking. Differences from the rest of the category are Fisher exact tests over 34 other datasheet axes, Holm-corrected. Entries retain the directory’s paid-tier ordering, visibly labelled on every promoted card.