Claude Code vs Krater

Claude Code is a coding agent that works inside your own repository: it reads the code, edits files, runs your tests and commits. Krater is a single subscription to more than 500 models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and others) in one chat workspace, with an agent mode that runs code in Krater's own sandbox. If your work is a codebase, Claude Code is the tool for it. If you want to try many models and generate images, video and documents without separate subscriptions, that's Krater.

Where the work happens

Claude Code runs in your terminal (macOS, Linux, Windows), in VS Code and JetBrains, in a desktop app and on the web. It works on your actual files, stages commits and opens pull requests, follows a CLAUDE.md file in the repo, connects to other tools over MCP, and can run in CI through GitHub Actions or GitLab.

Krater runs in the browser. Its Agent mode plans steps, runs code in a sandbox, drives a browser, connects to more than 1,400 apps and hands back finished files, and you can switch models partway through a chat. That's useful for one-off scripts and small apps with live previews. It isn't set up to work in a large codebase on your machine the way Claude Code is.

What the money buys

Claude Code comes with Claude Pro: $20 a month, or $17 a month billed annually ($200 up front). Max starts at $100 a month for more usage. It isn't on the free plan, and you can also run it on API billing.

Krater's pricing page now starts at Pro, billed at $200 a year (the page says that saves $40 against monthly, so $20 a month), with 1,500 credits a month and a 150k context window. Ultra is $490 a year with 4,000 credits, API access and website publishing; Max is $1,190 a year with a 1M context window and team features. The $9 Starter plan on our older listing is no longer offered.