Choose Claude Code for hands-on coding with Claude in your terminal or editor: it has permission modes and a sandbox, cloud sessions that keep running when your laptop sleeps, and flat plans that include usage. Choose The One to hand ongoing work, coding or not, to teams of agents that can mix models from different vendors. Each matter has a board, and deliveries come back with evidence for you to judge. The two also work together: Claude Code can hand a job to The One's working groups through The One's MCP server.
| The One | Claude Code | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A desktop app: a main assistant hands bigger work to working groups of AI agents, each matter on its own board | Anthropic's coding agent: reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands |
| Where you use it | The desktop app; a Linux server for headless runs | Terminal, VS Code, Cursor and JetBrains, the Claude desktop app, the web, Slack |
| Platforms | macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon, Windows, and a Linux server | macOS, Windows and Linux (CLI); desktop app on macOS, Windows and Linux (preview) |
| Models | Any vendor: the official service, OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini keys, a ChatGPT sign-in, compatible endpoints including local models; each agent can use a different one | Claude only (Opus 5.5 by default), through Anthropic, Bedrock, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry or a gateway |
| Price | No charge with your own keys or ChatGPT account; membership $20 / $60 / $200 a month with model usage included | Included in Claude Pro $20, Max $100, Ultra $200, Team and Enterprise plans, or pay-as-you-go with an API key |
| Several agents | Working groups from templates: roles, handoffs, parallel agents, a worker-and-reviewer task board, sub-groups; groups keep going across days and app restarts | Subagents; agent teams (experimental, one per session, not restored on resume); workflows of up to 256 subagents; cloud Projects (preview) |
| Undo | An action log of every tool call, shell commands included; undo a call, a run, a matter or everything since a time; copies kept 7 days | /rewind to checkpoints taken before each prompt (kept about 30 days); shell-only changes and most subagent edits are not restored |
| When your computer is off | Agents stop, unless they run on your Linux server | Cloud sessions and scheduled cloud tasks keep running |
| Automation | Triggers on a schedule or cron, when a folder, a web page or a mailbox has something new, or on a webhook; a nightly review | Scheduled cloud tasks (preview), desktop schedules, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, pull-request review (Team, Enterprise) |
| From your phone | Agent Room channel, text | Remote Control, Dispatch, Channels (Telegram, Discord, iMessage) |
| Extending | Plugins, MCP, Agent Skills, shareable Spaces | MCP, plugin marketplaces, Agent Skills, hooks, the Agent SDK |
| Source | Closed source; the docs are public | Closed source |
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