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By Lalla Asmaa Alaoui, founder of Mel · Updated Oct 25, 2026

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Mel vs Claude CodeAnthropic's coding agent, or a multi-model agentic terminal.Mel vs Codex CLIOpenAI's terminal agent, or five model families in one terminal.Mel vs Cursoran AI code editor, or an agentic terminal.Mel vs GitHub Copilotplans, models, where each works, and team billing.Mel vs Gemini CLIGoogle's terminal agent, or a multi-model terminal.Mel vs OpenCodetwo multi-model coding agents.Mel vs Clinean editor agent, or an agentic terminal.Mel vs Aidera terminal pair programmer, or a team of agents.Mel vs Goosetwo desktop AI agents.

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Mel – the agentic terminal · openmel.dev. A multi-agent, multi-model AI terminal for Mac, Windows, Linux and VS Code. Free with your own API key.

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Lalla Asmaa Alaoui

Founder & CEO of Mel

Lalla is a hands-on tech founder, agentic infrastructure architect and the vision behind Mel.

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