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

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

Praex

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.

Shrikar

Paid

Private, local Mac AI file organizer that reads documents, finds duplicates, applies custom rules and answers questions with citations.

Content-Aware Organization: Reads supported documents and uses extracted text, metadata and tags to organize files while keeping the source traceable.
Semantic Search: Search filenames, tags and indexed text by meaning using local embeddings, including OCR text from scans.
Ask With Citations: Ask questions by text or voice and open the exact cited PDF page to verify answers.
Custom Rules: Route files to destinations and add tags, with uncertain suggestions held in an approval queue.
Duplicate Detection: Compare exact and visual duplicate candidates side by side before deciding what to keep.
Folder Watching: New files are copied into the library and processed by the same rules while originals remain untouched.
Tax Pack Export: Review extracted transactions and export source documents for your accountant.

Downloads Cleanup: Sort receipts, screenshots and statements piling up in Downloads.
Tax Season: Collect financial documents and export a Tax Pack.
Personal Records: Find insurance, medical or license details by meaning with cited sources.
Client Files: Route contracts and invoices to client folders with tags.
Duplicate Cleanup: Remove renamed or visually identical copies safely.