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Loki runs the agents. It isn’t one.

Most tools on this page are a single company’s AI that writes code, or a website builder with its own hosting. Loki is the place where those agents do your work — from a description to a site that is online and keeps improving.

It runs the agents — it is not one.

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity and Grok each plug in. A project is not tied to one company's model, limits or outage: when one agent has used up its allowance, Loki can hand the work to the next.

It owns the whole loop.

From a description to a real repository, a deployed site and a feedback button on that site that turns the next note into the next change — and every change is checked on a phone-sized screen and undone if it made things worse.

Your computer or ours.

Agents can work on your own machine with your own subscriptions, or on an always-on server. Which one is a setting you choose per project, not a guess.

Open source.

Loki is MIT-licensed — read it, run it, change it.

Side by side

As of October 1, 2026, from each company’s own pages (linked). “—” means their page does not say. Prices change too often to list.

Tool	Where it works	How you hand it work	Opens pull requests	Puts it online
Loki	Its cloud builder (invited accounts during the beta), or your computer with Fleet Runner	Describe it in Loki, chat or voice, the Loki button on your own site, or another AI app	Yes	Yes — websites at <name>.orangecat.ch
AI coding agents
Claude Code (Anthropic)	Your computer, or Anthropic's cloud	Terminal, editor, desktop, web, phone, Slack, GitHub	Yes	No
Codex (OpenAI)	Your computer, or OpenAI's cloud	Terminal, editor, desktop, web, phone, GitHub, Slack	Yes	No
Cursor cloud agents	Cursor's cloud (or your editor)	Desktop, web, phone, Slack, GitHub, Linear	Yes	No
GitHub Copilot cloud agent	GitHub's cloud	Assign it an issue, or mention @copilot	Yes	No
Devin (Cognition)	Devin's cloud	Web, Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear	Yes	No
Antigravity (Google)	Your computer	Desktop app, terminal	—	No
Grok Build (xAI)	Your computer (beta)	Terminal	—	No
Muse Code (Meta)	Your computer	Terminal	—	No
App builders
Lovable	Lovable's cloud	Chat in the browser	Syncs to GitHub	Yes
Bolt	In the browser / Bolt's cloud	Chat in the browser	Exports to GitHub	Yes
Replit Agent	Replit's cloud	Chat in the browser or app	—	Yes
v0 (Vercel)	Vercel's cloud	Chat in the browser	Yes	Yes
Open, self-hosted agents
Hermes Agent (Nous Research)	Your computer or your server	Terminal and chat apps (Telegram, Slack, …)	—	No
OpenClaw	Your computer	Chat apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, …)	—	No
OpenHands	Your computer, their cloud, or your server	Browser, terminal, Slack, Jira	—	No
Aider	Your computer	Terminal	No (commits locally)	No

AI coding agents: One company's agent that writes code. Loki runs several of these for you — it is not one of them.

App builders: Describe an app in the browser and get a hosted result. The closest to what Loki does for a newcomer — inside their own hosting.

Open, self-hosted agents: Free software you run yourself. Like Loki, the work can stay on hardware you control.

Where the others are better

App builders like Lovable, Bolt, Replit and v0 are more polished for a first-time builder and need nothing installed. Loki's cloud builder is invite-only during the beta; without it you install Fleet Runner and an agent.
The big agents give every user their own isolated cloud machine. Loki's cloud builder is one shared server.
Each company ships new features in its own agent first; Loki gets them by running that same agent, sometimes later.
Cursor, Copilot, Devin and Codex take work straight from Slack, Linear or Jira. Loki's doors are its own app, chat, the feedback button and other AI apps.
They have large teams, support contracts and long track records. Loki is a beta.

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Free while Loki is in beta. Open source under the MIT licence.

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