How Custard compares.
Custard isn't another coding agent. It's where the ones you already have work together. Here's how it sits next to the tools you might be using.
- vs. Claude CodeKeep Claude Code. Custard runs it for you, gives it a name, and lets it team up with Codex, OpenCode and Antigravity on the same job.
- vs. CodexKeep Codex. Custard runs it beside Claude Code, OpenCode and Antigravity, so they can share a job and check each other.
- vs. Grok BuildGrok Build is xAI's coding agent for the terminal. Custard doesn't run it yet; it brings the agents you already have into one Mac app.
- vs. Hermes AgentHermes is an open-source agent that goes everywhere, from your terminal to your chat apps. Custard is a Mac app just for coding, built on agents you already use.
- vs. ConductorBoth are Mac apps for running coding agents side by side. Conductor gives each agent its own workspace; Custard puts them in one thread, as a team.
- vs. CursorCursor is a code editor with AI built in. Custard isn't an editor; it's where your agents work while you keep whichever editor you like.
- vs. the terminalYour agents were born in the terminal, and Custard keeps them there, under the hood. You get one window that shows what each one is doing.
Bring your agents.
Made for the Mac.