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How Adrian compares
Adrian is shaped differently from most AI app builders: it runs on your machine, against a model you chose. That suits some people and not others. Each page below says plainly when the other option is the better one.
AI app builders that run on your own machine
Most AI app builders run in someone else's browser tab. What changes when the agents, the model and the code all sit on your own hardware instead.
AI app builders where you bring your own API key
What BYOK actually changes about the bill: you pay the model provider directly, at their rates, with no platform margin stacked on top of it.
AI app builder vs AI coding assistant
One finishes a whole running app, the other makes you faster inside a file you already opened. Which you want depends on whether a project exists yet.
Using an AI app builder for client work
Building for someone else changes the questions: where their code sits, who owns the output, and what you can put in writing about both. A practical look.