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Plandex

by PlandexAI

An open-source terminal coding agent for large, multi-file changes. Its company and cloud service wound down in October 2025, and the code has had no commits since.

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Our verdict

Source reviewedReviewed 22 Oct 2026 by Enterprise DNA editorial

An open-source terminal coding agent for large, multi-file changes. Its company and cloud service wound down in October 2025, and the code has had no commits since.

Best for: Developers who want to study or fork a coding agent that plans changes and holds them in a reviewable sandbox before applying them.

Choose something else if: you need a maintained tool for new work. The website, docs and install script no longer load, so a maintained coding agent such as Aider or Claude Code is the safer choice.

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Using Plandex in practice

Where it runs

Self-hosted only: a local server in Docker with Postgres, and a command-line client on your computer.

How to install

Needs git, Docker and Docker Compose, or WSL on Windows. Clone the repository and start the local server, then install the command-line client from a GitHub release binary, because the install script's site is offline.

Install commands

git clone https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex.git
cd plandex/app
./start_local.sh

As published in the linked sources. Not run by us.

What it costs

Free under the MIT licence. You pay your model providers and run it on your own machine. The paid Plandex Cloud plans are no longer sold.

Prices and plans change. Check the linked sources before committing.

Why consider it

  • Holds proposed changes across many files in a sandbox you review before anything is applied.
  • MIT licensed, and works with your own keys for OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others, or local models through Ollama.

What to watch for

  • Plandex Cloud stopped taking users in October 2025 and was due to close on 7 November 2025. Self-hosting is the only option.
  • plandex.ai and docs.plandex.ai did not load on 22 October 2026, so the documented install script fails.
  • Local mode breaks with the current postgres:latest image unless you apply the workaround in issue 305.

A first task to try

Read the local-mode quickstart in the repository, then run one small plan on a throwaway project and review the sandboxed changes before applying them.

Suggested exercise, not an installation test. We reviewed the linked documentation; no host compatibility is implied.

Other options to understand

Related tools can solve different parts of the same job. Compare fit before treating them as replacements.

Claude CodePeople maintaining a repository who want help with a specific change.CursorPeople who prefer working inside an editor with visible files and changes.GitHub MCP ServerTeams that want their assistant to work with GitHub context.
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Key facts

What we have checked

Latest version
cli/v2.2.1 (released 16 July 2025)
Checked GitHub
GitHub stars
15,660
Checked github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438

Each value shows when we last confirmed it and where it came from. Values we have not confirmed are left out, never guessed.

Stars and usage

How Plandex is growing

GitHub stars

15,434 to 15,660

stars. 12 July 2026 to 26 Sept 2026, 2 readings.

Source: github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438. Checked .

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Sources

Where this comes from

A source shows what was published when we checked it. It does not certify security, performance or a working installation. Read our method.

Changelog

What changed

  1. Released cli/v2.2.1

    Source: GitHub

  2. Released server/v2.2.1

    Source: GitHub

  3. Released cli/v2.2.0

    Source: GitHub

  4. Released server/v2.2.0

    Source: GitHub

  5. Released server/v2.1.8

    Source: GitHub

  6. Released server/v2.1.7

    Source: GitHub

  7. Released cli/v2.1.6+1

    Source: GitHub

  8. Released server/v2.1.6+1

    Source: GitHub

  9. Released cli/v2.1.6

    Source: GitHub

  10. Released server/v2.1.6

    Source: GitHub

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