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Onyx Code

Local-first AI coding assistant that runs models on your own machine.

Limited free plan
Windows and Linux

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Technical details

Pricing: Limited free planconfirmed by Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms), Automatic reading of the official pages
Excerpt from onyxcode.app, read on 10 November 2026
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License: Proprietary, freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: not documented
Commercial use: not documented
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: not documented
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Unspecified source · Windows: Unspecified source, Winget
Publisher: Loko Technologies Ltd.
Latest version: 2.7.2
Source code: github.com/onyxcode-app/onyxcode-releases

Overview

Onyx Code is an AI coding assistant, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: offline use, local model execution, open-weight models (Llama, Mistral…), code completion, keyboard shortcuts, built-in terminal, choice of several models and providers, attachments.

Services and protocols mentioned: Ollama and OpenAI.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Onyx Code is a local-first AI code editor built on VS Code OSS, with bundled llama.cpp, one-click Air-Gap Mode and an agent suite.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Local-first AI coding assistant that runs models on your own machine.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
“Onyx Code is a local-first AI code editor built on VS Code OSS, with bundled llama.cpp, one-click Air-Gap Mode and an agent suite.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Onyx Code is a local-first AI code editor built on VS Code OSS, with bundled llama.cpp, one-click Air-Gap Mode and an agent suite.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“A private-by-design AI code editor. Onyx Code is built on the VS Code foundation and bundles a local inference engine plus a curated catalog of open models, so AI chat and inline autocomplete work fully offline by…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“The official Onyx Code documentation: chat, autocomplete, local models, codebase indexing, agent mode, MCP servers, Air-Gap Mode, settings and licensing.” — official page, 10 November 2026
“Everything you expect from a modern editor is here: extensions, themes, keybindings, an integrated terminal, Git.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Everything you expect from a modern editor is here: extensions, themes, keybindings, an integrated terminal, Git.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“External backends (Ollama, LM Studio, and any OpenAI-compatible server) are supported as an opt-in swap when you want them.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Every prompt and attachment scanned locally for AWS, GitHub, OpenAI, and Slack tokens, JWTs, and PEM keys before the model sees them.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“RAG-powered context.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Onyx Code offers a limited free plan; advanced features or heavier use are paid.

It is distributed under a proprietary licence: free to use under its terms, which may change; that licence is not an open source licence.

Plans and conditions

Free plan: basic features are free; others are reserved for paid plans.
Paid subscriptions from 10 $ per month (price read on the official page).

Weaknesses

Limited free plan

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (source code, publisher, licence, platforms, version) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (limits, free status) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Automatic reading of the official pages (free status) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 10 November 2026
Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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