Magpie
magpie is an open-source desktop app and local gateway that lets coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex use models from many providers.
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Pricing and API checked by an OpenBeat editor on Nov 10, 2026 · facts from the maker’s own site ·
Tool insights
magpie sits between your coding agents and the model vendors. You can change which model each agent uses, or switch all of them at once, without reconfiguring every tool.
Each coding agent normally talks to its own vendor and speaks its own API format. Using another provider's model, spreading load across accounts, or keeping secrets out of prompts means extra setup in every tool.
Developers who run several terminal or editor agents and want one place to control models, accounts and usage. It is probably not for anyone who uses a single agent with a single provider and has no need to switch.
What it does
magpie is a desktop app that runs a local gateway on your machine. Coding agents send their requests to the gateway, and the gateway forwards them to the model provider you chose. It translates between the OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini API formats, so an agent built for one can use a model from another. The maker is not named in the facts we have.
The site lists models such as DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3, Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.5.
Key features
- Switch the model per agent, or for all agents at once.
- Local gateway at 127.0.0.1:3425 that translates OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs.
- Masks secrets in prompts before they reach the vendor.
- Smart routing across several accounts and keys, with failover to the next account when one fails or is rate limited.
- Reuses agent sign-ins, such as Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus, as providers.
- Profiles that change every agent in one step.
- Usage counts for tokens, cache hits and cost, per agent and per model.
- Routing groups with rules based on intent, token length, folder and hours of the day.
- A terminal CLI and a TUI alongside the desktop app.
Listed agent integrations: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Goose, Pi, Cursor CLI, Copilot CLI, VS Code, Crush, Hermes Agent and Devin.
Pricing
As of November 2026, magpie is free and open source under the MIT licence. There is one plan, Free, with builds for macOS, Windows and Linux. No paid tier is listed. Fees charged by the model providers you connect are separate, and the maker's site does not state how they are handled.
API and integrations
Whether magpie offers a public API is not stated on the maker's site, and no SDKs are listed. The local gateway is the main interface: agents point at it using the OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini protocol. Documentation is at usemagpie.ai/docs/start. The GitHub project showed about 290 stars as of November 2026. The latest release listed is v0.1.3475, dated 9 November 2026.
Good to know
- Claude subscription requests need Claude Code installed on the same machine.
- Google may suspend an Antigravity account that is used outside Antigravity.
- A running session keeps the model it started with, so a switch only affects new sessions.
- Codex reads its model list at start-up. Restart it after you switch.
- The Linux build needs GTK 3 and WebKitGTK 4.1.
- magpie must be running for claude-magpie to work.
- The version number suggests an early-stage project. Check the release notes before relying on it for daily work.
Releases
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