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Nodea
Summary
Edit a prompt in any standard chat interface and the previous reply disappears — you're either starting over or maintaining a graveyard of duplicate tabs. Nodea exists for that specific failure.
Nodea is a branching canvas for Claude that turns every reply into a node you can fork. Ask the same question a different way, compare both answers side by side, color-tag the keeper, and the path you didn't take stays exactly where you left it. The whole conversation grows as a navigable tree, not a scroll. That model works well for research drafts, planning alternatives, and iterative prompt work — but Nodea is a single-model interface locked to Anthropic Claude. Teams that need GPT-4o, Gemini, or their own fine-tuned model will hit that wall on day one.
Bottom line: Pick Nodea for planning sessions or research sprints where you need to hold multiple Claude threads open at once — but if your workflow requires any model outside the Anthropic stack, you are looking at the wrong tool.
Hosted & API Pricing
The model is free to self-host. These are the creator's hosted/API options.Pricing may have changed since last verified. Check the official site for current plans.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Price
- $8/mo
- Free Tier
- 25,000 daily / 450,000 monthly tokens; Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.6
Beta
25,000 daily / 450,000 monthly tokens; Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 4.6
- Anonymous sign-in
- Basic models
Pro
50,000 daily / 1,000,000 monthly tokens; all models including Opus 4.7
- Opus access
- Higher limits
- Early features
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Pricing may have changed since last verified. Check the official site for current plans.
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Fork any reply without losing the original path, so you can test a rewritten prompt against the first answer without opening a second tab or rebuilding context.
- Side-by-side branch comparison on the canvas, which means you make model output decisions with both answers visible instead of toggling between scrolled threads.
- Persistent project history with cross-branch search, so the useful response you wrote three sessions ago doesn't require you to remember which conversation it was in.
- MIT-licensed with a self-hosted option via Supabase and Anthropic API keys, which means teams with data residency or cost-control requirements don't have to use the cloud product.
- Anonymous sign-in mode requires no email, so you can evaluate the canvas for a real task before committing account credentials.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Model support is locked to Anthropic Claude. The moment a team needs GPT-4o, Gemini, or a self-hosted open-weight model for any part of their workflow, Nodea cannot accommodate it — and teams in that position move to a provider-agnostic canvas like OpenAI's Playground or a self-hosted LLM front-end.
- No API surface exists, so Nodea cannot be embedded in an existing internal tool, called from a script, or integrated into a pipeline. Teams that want branching logic inside a product they are building have to replicate the mechanic themselves.
- The canvas interaction model — drag, zoom, node navigation — is built for a large-screen desktop session. Research or planning workflows that happen on a tablet or need a compact interface will find the spatial layout works against them rather than for it.
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- Platforms
- Web
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- Yes
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-11T06:39:36.214Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Users who iterate on ideas with Claude
- Research and planning workflows needing alternatives
- Visual thinkers preferring trees over linear chats
- Beta users seeking free access to multiple Claude models
What it does well
- Exploring multiple response alternatives from the same prompt
- Comparing AI outputs side-by-side without losing context
- Mapping complex thinking or planning processes visually
- Maintaining persistent project histories across sessions
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Nodea free?
- Nodea is a paid tool ($8/mo). No permanent free tier is offered.
- Is Nodea open source?
- Yes. Nodea is open source.
- Can I self-host Nodea?
- Yes. Nodea supports self-hosting on your own infrastructure.
- What platforms does Nodea support?
- Nodea is available on: Web.
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Linear chat interfaces make one assumption you can’t opt out of: the conversation is a single thread. Nodea rejects that assumption. Every Claude reply becomes a node on a canvas you can zoom, drag, and fork. The core workflow is three steps: ask, branch, navigate. Hover any message, hit branch, ask differently — the original path stays put. Both answers sit side by side on the canvas. You jump between them by clicking nodes, not scrolling.
The differentiating feature is the canvas itself, not just the branching mechanic. Nodea stores every path you’ve ever explored in a persistent project history, searchable across all branches with a single keyboard shortcut. Color-coding lets you tag which threads are worth keeping so a complex planning session doesn’t collapse into visual noise. The docs describe this as making your thinking take a shape you can see and edit — which is accurate for anyone who has lost a promising prompt thread because they edited the question.
Nodea fits research workflows, prompt iteration, and planning sessions where holding multiple alternatives open at once matters. It does not fit teams that need model flexibility: the vendor states support for Claude Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, and Opus 4.7 — and those are the only options. There is no API surface exposed for programmatic access, which rules out embedding Nodea into existing toolchains. The canvas interaction model is also desktop-oriented; the drag-and-zoom interface does not adapt well to mobile or tablet workflows.
The project is MIT-licensed with a self-hosted path documented for Supabase and Anthropic API setups, so teams with data residency requirements or API key budget control have an exit from the hosted version. Anonymous mode on the cloud product requires no email signup, which lowers the barrier for one-off exploration without committing to an account.