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agent-desktop vs OpenDesign

Compare agent-desktop and OpenDesign - features, pricing, and which is better for your workflow.

What is agent-desktop?

Free Apache-2.0 CLI from Vercel Labs. Coding agents read and operate desktop apps through the OS accessibility tree.

Price: Free

  • npm package agent-desktop
  • macOS, Windows, and Linux
  • Apache-2.0 CLI and C library
  • Same product as the agent-desktop tool listing
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What is OpenDesign?

Free, open-source design workspace for Mac and Windows that turns your coding agent into a design engine — prototypes, sites, slides, dashboards, images and HTML video, all on one brand system, stored locally.

Price: Free

  • Describe it, get it: prototypes, websites, slides, dashboards, marketing images and HTML video
  • One design system keeps every artifact on-brand; 152+ design systems and 458+ plugins to start from
  • Works with 21+ coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini
  • Live artifact preview and editing in a sandbox
  • Design-to-code, screenshot-to-code and Figma-to-code
  • Local-first: files live on your machine; free and open source under Apache-2.0, you pay only your own model API costs
Learn more about OpenDesign