agentic compare
agentic vs claude-code-router
claude-code-router (CCR) is the most popular way to point Claude Code at other models, and for good reason: it is a capable control plane with a big plugin ecosystem. agentic solves the same core problem for a different person. This page is the honest version of who should pick which.
Pick CCR if
- You want one control plane for several agents and tools, not just Claude Code.
- You are comfortable running and administering a long-lived router process.
- You want its plugin and transformer ecosystem.
Pick agentic if
- You want Claude Code exactly as Anthropic ships it, unmodified and auto-updating, with nothing to operate. agentic is a static Go binary; the first session binds the port, the last one out turns off the lights.
- You want spend control that cannot be talked past: every token priced as it happens, and daily, weekly, or monthly budgets that refuse the next request instead of warning after the fact.
- You want a classifier to pick the cheapest model that fits each turn, size-checked against each model's real context window before the request goes out.
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You want
agentic costto answer "where did today's $4.31 go" without a dashboard.
Side by side
Same four rows as the homepage table — harness, how it runs, cost and budgets, model routing — with the other columns dropped so CCR and agentic can be read against each other.
| agentic | claude-code-router | |
|---|---|---|
| Harness | Real Claude Code, unmodified, auto-updating | Real Claude Code, unmodified |
| Runs as | Static Go binary, no daemon (leader election over a fixed port) | Daemon / server process you deploy and administer |
| Cost & budgets |
First-class CLI: agentic cost, live statusline,
hard-stop daily / weekly / monthly budgets
|
Usually a dashboard or not built in |
| Model routing |
Aliases + a built-in LLM-classifier tier router
(auto), size-aware and sticky per turn, with
optional per-task specialist overrides
|
Rule-based routing configs; no classifier-based tiering |
The honest catch
CCR is older, bigger, and battle-tested by far more users. agentic
is newer and built for one developer's machine, not a team. If you
run a team gateway, LiteLLM or CCR is the right layer today. If you
are one developer who wants claude, unmodified, with a
budget and a cheap-model escape hatch, agentic installs in one
command and has nothing to administer.
One command to a tracked session.
curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maorbril/agentic/main/install.sh
| sh