The AI coding assistant
built for people who own their tools.
Cursor, Copilot, and Claude are great — until you look at the bill, read the terms of service, or try to use them on a plane. Huginn is local, free, and open. Here's why that matters.
Stop paying forever.
Cursor is $40/month. GitHub Copilot is $19/month. Claude Pro is $20/month. They compound. Huginn is free — not "free tier with a catch," free. No API key, no account, no subscription. You run it on your own hardware against models you download once and own forever. The bill is electricity.
Your code, your choice.
Every request you send to a hosted AI assistant leaves your machine. In local mode, nothing leaves — every inference call goes to a local process on localhost, no outbound network calls, no telemetry. Choose cloud providers and you control exactly what context you send. Either way, Huginn never phones home.
An assistant that actually remembers you.
Claude CLI forgets you the moment the session ends. Huginn's named agents persist across sessions. Create Steve — a senior Go engineer who knows your codebase. Steve remembers the last 20 conversations, has his own system prompt, and can consult other agents. Come back next week. Steve remembers.
Not locked into anyone's roadmap.
Claude CLI only runs Claude. Cursor picks your model for you. Huginn connects to any provider — local models via Ollama or the built-in managed runtime (Qwen, DeepSeek, Llama, Mistral), or bring your own API key for Anthropic Claude, OpenRouter (200+ models), or OpenAI. When a better model drops tomorrow, you switch a single config line.
Read every line. Change anything.
Proprietary AI tools are black boxes. You don't know what they send, how they handle your data, or what changes next release. Huginn is MIT-licensed Go. Read the source. Audit the network calls (there are none). Fork it, extend it, run it in an air-gapped environment. It's yours.
Install huginn. Run huginn. That's it.
Managed mode handles everything itself: downloads its own llama.cpp runtime, pulls the model you choose, starts automatically. Or point at Ollama, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. One binary either way — no config files on day one.
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