Plandex
Open-source terminal coding agent — cloud service wound down
Overview
Self-hosted, MIT-licensed CLI agent for large multi-file coding tasks with a reviewable diff sandbox and up to 2M tokens of context. The hosted Plandex Cloud shut down in October 2025.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
What you can produce with Plandex
- Self-hosted, MIT-licensed CLI agent
- Cumulative diff review sandbox before changes are applied
- Plan branching and rollback of agent-generated changes
- Up to 2M tokens of direct context, 20M+ via tree-sitter project maps
- Multi-provider model support (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter)
- Automated debugging against build/test/lint commands
ASEAN Perspective
Plandex in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Plandex's core idea still holds up: a terminal agent that plans a multi-step task, shows you a cumulative diff before anything touches disk, and lets you branch or roll back a plan like a git history. For a 20-30 file refactor that's a genuinely safer workflow than agents that write straight to disk. It supports OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models plus OpenRouter, and the tree-sitter project maps let it index codebases well beyond its 2M-token direct context.
The catch is momentum. Plandex Cloud stopped taking new users on 3 October 2025, plandex.ai no longer resolves, and the GitHub repo hasn't seen a commit since that same week — nine-plus months of silence as of mid-2026. It's still installable and runnable from source with your own API keys, so existing users aren't stranded, but treat this as a frozen tool, not one under active development. Fine for self-hosters; risky to build a workflow around going forward.
What people say
Plandex launched on Hacker News in April 2024 as a git-like CLI for AI coding, then relaunched as Plandex v2 in April 2025 after what its creator described as eight months of heads-down rework, adding multi-provider model support and a fully autonomous mode. The Show HN threads for both launches are largely positive on the concept — commenters singled out the diff-review sandbox and plan-branching as more trustworthy than agents that edit files directly, though some reported friction with v2's login flow and provider configuration on first setup.
Third-party write-ups from 2026 (The AI Agent Index, Terminal Trove and others) rank it well among terminal-based agents, calling it "the best open-source terminal-based AI coding agent for large multi-file projects" with a 4.3/5 editor score in one roundup, praising the safety of its sandboxed diffs on serious refactors. The GitHub repo carries 15,500+ stars and 58 open issues, which is a healthy community footprint for a project of this kind, and its MIT license means nothing stops continued community forks even with the original team stepping back.
What's missing is any live vendor support. Plandex Cloud — the hosted, pay-as-you-go version — began winding down on 3 October 2025 and stopped accepting new signups; the plandex.ai marketing site is now unreachable (DNS doesn't resolve). The GitHub repository's most recent push is dated the same week as the wind-down announcement, and the latest tagged release (cli/v2.2.1) is from July 2025. There's no VS Code extension (one was reportedly in development but never shipped) and no MCP support, so it stays a CLI-only tool. Reviewers consistently note it lacks the IDE polish of Cursor or Copilot and the funded-vendor support of Devin-style products — you're on your own with self-hosting and your own model bills, which is exactly the trade some open-source-first developers want and exactly what will turn off anyone expecting a maintained SaaS.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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