For local chat Jan seems okay, or OpenWebUI for something hosted. For IDE integrations some people enjoy Cline a bunch but RooCode also allows you to have multiple roles (like ask/code/debug/architect with different permissions e.g. no file changes with ask) and also preconfigured profiles for the various providers and models, so you can switch with a dropdown, even in the middle of a chat. There’s also an Orchestrator mode so I can use something smart for splitting up tasks into smaller chunks and a dumber but cheaper model for the execution. Aside from that, most of the APIs there seem OpenAI conformant so switching isn’t that conceptually difficult. Also if you wanna try a lot of different models you can try OpenRouter.
Something like opencode probably, that’s what I have been using to freely and very easily switch between models and keep all my same workflows. It’s phenomenal really
For local chat Jan seems okay, or OpenWebUI for something hosted. For IDE integrations some people enjoy Cline a bunch but RooCode also allows you to have multiple roles (like ask/code/debug/architect with different permissions e.g. no file changes with ask) and also preconfigured profiles for the various providers and models, so you can switch with a dropdown, even in the middle of a chat. There’s also an Orchestrator mode so I can use something smart for splitting up tasks into smaller chunks and a dumber but cheaper model for the execution. Aside from that, most of the APIs there seem OpenAI conformant so switching isn’t that conceptually difficult. Also if you wanna try a lot of different models you can try OpenRouter.
Octofy (https://octofy.ai), it also allows answering with multiple models for one prompt.
Isn't Continue supposed to help you do that, in VSCode? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Continue...
Something like opencode probably, that’s what I have been using to freely and very easily switch between models and keep all my same workflows. It’s phenomenal really
You can also switch between models with aider https://aider.chat/
Aider hasn’t been updated much lately, seems to be dying
Zed is actually pretty good at this.
Cline & Open router