Farol vs Praex: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of Farol and Praex — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

Farol

Lucas Neves Pereira

Free

A free, open source native macOS terminal for supervising Claude Code, Codex and other AI coding agents side by side.

Agent Status Sidebar: Shows at a glance which coding agent is working, which needs your input and which has finished, with a colored status dot per session.
Git Worktree Tasks: Describe a task, pick an agent, and Farol creates a git worktree on a new branch and starts the agent there so parallel agents never conflict.
Menu Bar and Notch Panel: A lighthouse menu bar item or notch panel and macOS notifications keep you posted on agent state while you work in other apps.
Diff Review and Shipping: View every changed file as a diff, then commit, push and open a pull request on GitHub or GitLab from the app.
Files and Git Graph: Browse the project as a tree, make quick fixes in a light editor and inspect a graph of every branch and commit.
Built on libghostty: Native Mac app with Ghostty's speed, themes and configuration support.
Multi-Agent Support: Claude Code and Codex report status once connected; any other terminal agent works via Farol's CLI or the terminal bell.

Parallel Agent Development: Run several Claude Code or Codex agents on separate branches of the same repo without file conflicts.
Agent Supervision: Monitor multiple long-running coding agents and respond only when one is waiting for you.
Code Review Before Merge: Inspect agent-generated diffs and open pull requests directly from the terminal.
Background Task Delegation: Kick off a task, switch to other apps and get notified through the notch or menu bar when it needs you.
Ghostty Migration: Keep an existing Ghostty config and themes while gaining agent-aware session management.

Freemium

Open-source AI coding copartner with its own Velox, Faber and Lucia models, available in terminal, mobile and web.

Own Model Family: Velox II, Faber II and Lucia II are tuned and served by Praex on its own infrastructure, sized from quick edits to frontier-scale problems.
Terminal CLI: Install with a one-line script and let the agent read files, run commands, edit code and verify tests directly in your terminal.
Cross-Device Sessions: Start a task in the terminal, steer it from your phone and review it on the web with the same agent, memory and session.
Bring Your Own Keys: Run Praex on any model with your own API keys or hardware at no extra cost.
Open-Source Core: The CLI is an MIT-licensed fork of opencode, so the agent harness can be inspected and modified.
No Sign-Up Chat: Start chatting on the web with the free Velox II model without creating an account.

Fixing Failing Builds: Hand the agent a broken deploy and let it read configs, run tests and patch source until tests pass.
Everyday Quick Edits: Use the free Velox II model for instant answers and small code changes in the terminal.
Deep Reasoning Tasks: Escalate to Faber II on Pro for complex coding and multi-step reasoning.
Mobile Task Steering: Kick off a refactor at your desk and monitor or redirect it from your phone.
Self-Hosted Workflows: Point the CLI at your own models or keys to keep code on infrastructure you control.