magpie vs quotio
Pick any model for any coding agent from one menu-bar app: a local gateway translating OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs, with subscription sign-ins and quota failover across accounts. — versus — Native macOS menu-bar front-end for CLIProxyAPI: pool your Claude, Codex, Qwen and Copilot accounts behind one local proxy with live quota bars, auto-failover and one-click CLI wiring.
Both are menu-bar apps pooling coding-CLI subscriptions behind one local proxy with quota bars and failover; quotio fronts CLIProxyAPI on macOS, magpie ships its own cross-platform gateway.
| magpie | quotio | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 8.6k | 4.9k |
| Forks | 565 | 323 |
| Language | Go | Swift |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last activity | yesterday | 3 days ago |
| Topics | gateway, coding | gateway, coding |
| Curated connections | 4 | 5 |
magpie — the curator's take
Worth it the moment you run more than one agent, provider or account — Claude Code on Kimi, Codex on DeepSeek, failover when a plan runs dry, 50+ agents configured in place. Not needed for one agent on its vendor's own plan (the README says so itself). It reads your agents' stored sign-ins by default; turn account discovery off if that's a policy problem.
quotio — the curator's take
This is the macOS GUI that CLIProxyAPI never had. Quotio installs and supervises the proxy, adds accounts by OAuth or API key across Claude, Codex, Qwen, Vertex AI, iFlow, Antigravity, Kiro and Copilot, rotates between them round-robin or fill-first when one cools down, and rewrites the configs of Claude Code, Codex CLI, Amp, OpenCode and Droid to point at localhost. The menu-bar quota bars are the real product — you see the limit coming before it stops you mid-task, and standalone quota mode works without running the proxy at all. NOT for Linux or headless servers: it needs macOS 14+, and Cursor and Trae are quota-monitored only, never proxied through it.