{"id":17458,"date":"2026-10-19T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17458"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:36:47","slug":"claude-cli-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17458","title":{"rendered":"Claude CLI alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xiaomi&#8217;s MiMo AI team has <a href=\"https:\/\/mimo.xiaomi.com\/blog\/mimo-code-long-horizon\">open-sourced MiMo Code<\/a>, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code on key agentic coding benchmarks. (<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/xiaomis-new-open-source-agentic-ai-coding-harness-mimo-code-beats-claude-code-at-ultra-long-200-step-tasks\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/xiaomis-new-open-source-agentic-ai-coding-harness-mimo-code-beats-claude-code-at-ultra-long-200-step-tasks\">Article<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"217\" data-attachment-id=\"17459\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=17459\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-3.png?fit=1000%2C339&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,339\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-3.png?fit=640%2C217&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-3.png?resize=640%2C217&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-3.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-3.png?resize=604%2C205&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-3.png?resize=300%2C102&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-3.png?resize=768%2C260&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MiMo Code is available now on GitHub under an MIT license, and installs with a single terminal command (curl -fsSL <a href=\"https:\/\/mimo.xiaomi.com\/install\">https:\/\/mimo.xiaomi.com\/install<\/a> | bash) on macOS and Linux or via npm (npm install -g @mimo-ai\/cli) on Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While supposedly beating Claude, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbench.ai\/leaderboard\/terminal-bench\/2.0\">official Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard<\/a> maintained at tbench.ai, OpenAI&#8217;s Codex CLI running GPT-5.5 scores 82.2% \u2014 roughly nine points above MiMo Code&#8217;s self-reported 73% \u2014 and OpenAI&#8217;s own GPT-5.5 announcement claims 82.7% on the same benchmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaomi&#8217;s MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code on key agentic coding benchmarks. (Article) MiMo Code is available now on GitHub under an MIT license, and installs with a single terminal command (curl -fsSL https:\/\/mimo.xiaomi.com\/install | bash) on macOS and Linux or via npm (npm install -g @mimo-ai\/cli) on Windows. 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