The best app to run coding agents in parallel on Windows in 2026: 8 ways compared

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages on October 29, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick.

Ways to run coding agents in parallel on Windows, compared

Running agents in parallel means several sessions working at once, each on its own task, usually each in its own Git worktree so they don’t overwrite each other. The best-known app for it, Conductor, is for Macs: its installation page says “Conductor is not available for Windows or Linux yet.” Paradev, formerly Superset, says the same: “Windows is not yet available.” These are the ways that work on a PC today.

Option	Best for	Price, checked October 29, 2026	Agents	WSL
Enjoy	Every lab’s agent, across all your projects	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days (pricing)	Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, OpenCode	Projects inside WSL 2 run their agents there
Orca	The most agents, free and open source	Free	40 built in, and any command-line agent	Not covered on its homepage
T3 Code	A free, open-source control plane	Free	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Antigravity	Not covered in its README
Paseo	Agents on several machines, from your phone	Free	Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity, Muse Code, and ACP agents	Not covered on its homepage
CodeAgentSwarm	Many agent terminals in one window, free for now	Free during its beta	Ten command-line agents	Not covered on its homepage
The ChatGPT app	Only Codex	Included in every ChatGPT plan, from Free; Plus is $20 a month	Codex	Switch the agent to WSL in Settings
Claude Code Desktop	Only Claude	Included in Claude Pro ($20 a month), Max (from $100), Team and Enterprise	Claude Code	WSL 2 sessions
Terminals and git worktree	Free, if you’re at home in a terminal	Free	Any command-line agent	Run the agent in your distribution

Prices are per month as each maker lists them, before tax. The independent apps run your agents on your own Claude, ChatGPT or other plans and API keys, which those companies bill for separately.

Before you pick: Windows or WSL

On Windows, an agent can run in two places, and it’s the first thing to decide.

• Native Windows. Claude Code runs on “Windows 10 1809+ or Windows Server 2019+,” from PowerShell or CMD. Its setup page says Git for Windows is optional but provides Git Bash, which its Bash tool needs, and that sandboxing is “Not supported” natively. Codex in the ChatGPT app “runs natively on Windows using PowerShell and the Windows sandbox.”
• WSL 2. A Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu, on your PC. Anthropic says to use a WSL session “when your repository lives inside the distribution’s filesystem,” because working on those files from Windows “goes through a network filesystem, which is slow and breaks file watching.” OpenAI says to “keep your repositories under your Linux home directory.” Neither app supports WSL 1.

Keep each agent where its project lives, and pick an app that can follow it there.

Enjoy

Best for: running every lab’s agent side by side, across all your projects, without stopping when one plan runs out.

Enjoy runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode, on Windows, Mac and Linux, on the AI plans you already have. Each conversation runs its own agent, so several work at once, and an agent can work in a worktree when two tasks touch the same files. On Windows:

• Projects inside WSL. Open a folder in a WSL 2 distribution, and Enjoy runs everything for it there: Git, your agents, and the programs they start. It installs each agent in the distribution with the agent’s own Linux installer, and signs it in there.
• Switch agents mid-conversation. When one agent is the wrong fit or out of usage, another picks up the same conversation.
• Keep going through limits. When an agent runs out of usage, Enjoy switches to another of your accounts that still has usage, or waits for the limit to reset, then continues.

Price: one monthly subscription, and the first seven days are free, with a card to start. It includes your phone, any browser and your other computers. See pricing.

Watch for: Enjoy isn’t open source, and it’s a subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends. In WSL, distributions for Arm processors aren’t supported, and your tools don’t run in WSL projects yet. Enjoy doesn’t stop two conversations from editing the same files, so overlapping work needs a worktree. Scheduled workflows run only while your computer is awake with Enjoy open. And it runs six agents, where Orca lists 40.

Orca

Best for: the widest choice of agents, free.

Orca, from Stably AI, is “the agent development environment.” Its homepage says “Every task runs in its own isolated git worktree,” and that it’s “Free and open source for macOS, Windows, and Linux,” under the MIT license. Its supported agents page lists every agent “Orca ships with out of the box,” 40 of them plus an optional Claude Code mode, from Claude Code and Codex to Aider and Goose. There’s a mobile companion for iOS and Android.

Watch for: its homepage doesn’t say how it handles projects inside WSL, so check before you move a Linux-side project to it. Its homepage also counts “27 supported agents” in one table, fewer than its docs list.

T3 Code

Best for: a free, open-source app that does one thing, running agents side by side.

T3 Code is an “agent harness control surface” under the MIT license. It “works with your subscriptions on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, and Google Antigravity,” and its README gives Windows installs through winget (winget install T3Tools.T3Code), scoop, or PowerShell. It has phone apps for iOS and Android and a web app.

Watch for: the README says “We are very very early in this project. Expect bugs.”

Paseo

Best for: running agents on several machines and steering them from your phone.

Paseo is “the agentic development environment,” and “Paseo is free and open source” under Apache 2.0. Its downloads include Windows for both Intel or x64 and ARM64, as well as Mac, Linux and phones. It has “custom implementations for Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity, and Muse Code,” and for each task “Paseo creates a git worktree and runs the agent inside it.” Its relay between devices is “end-to-end encrypted, Paseo can’t read your traffic.”

Watch for: Paseo Hub, its option for teams, has no price on its homepage.

CodeAgentSwarm

Best for: many agent terminals in one window, at no cost while it’s in beta.

CodeAgentSwarm calls itself an ADE: “it lets you direct your coding agents from one place.” It says “The desktop app runs on macOS 12+, Windows 10/11 and Linux,” and names ten agents: “Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity CLI, OpenCode, Kimi Code, Grok Build, Cursor Agent, Muse Code, Pi and Devin CLI.” For now, “The complete product is free during beta.”

Watch for: it doesn’t say what it will cost after the beta, or whether it’s open source. And on worktrees, its FAQ advises “Use separate Git worktrees when sessions need isolated working copies,” without saying the app makes them for you.

The ChatGPT app, for Codex

Best for: people who only use OpenAI.

Codex runs in the ChatGPT desktop app, which offers “one interface for working across projects, running parallel chats, and reviewing results.” Its worktrees “let Codex run multiple independent chats in the same project without interfering with each other.” By default it uses “the Windows-native Codex agent,” and you can switch the agent to WSL 2 in Settings. OpenAI’s pricing says Codex is “included in your ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, or Enterprise plan”: Go is $8 a month, Plus $20 and Pro from $100.

Watch for: it runs only Codex. “If you don’t have Git installed natively on Windows, the app can’t use some features,” and Git may not be detected in projects opened from \\wsl$. Free and Go get “GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout.”

Claude Code Desktop

Best for: people who only use Claude.

Claude Code is the Code tab of Anthropic’s Claude desktop app, for Windows on x64 and ARM64. You can press Ctrl+N “to work on multiple tasks in parallel,” and in a Git project “turn on Worktree before you start a session to run it in its own Git worktree.” In a WSL 2 session, “Parallel sessions, side chats, visual diff review, branch and pull request status, and worktrees all work.” Anthropic’s pricing says “Claude Code is included in all paid plans”: Pro at $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, Max from $100, Team and Enterprise.

Watch for: it runs only Claude, and “by default, Worktree is off and Claude works in the project folder itself.” “Plugins aren’t available in WSL sessions,” and “Desktop doesn’t read PowerShell profiles,” so a PATH you set there won’t reach it. The free Claude plan “does not include Claude Code access.”

Terminals and git worktree

Best for: people at home in a terminal who want nothing extra.

You don’t need an app. Git itself lets one repository “support multiple working trees, allowing you to check out more than one branch at a time,” with git worktree add. Make a worktree per task, open a terminal tab in each, and start claude or codex there, on Windows or inside your WSL distribution. It’s free, and it runs any command-line agent.

Watch for: you track every session, review every diff and clean up every worktree yourself. And natively on Windows, Claude Code’s sandboxing is “Not supported”; it needs WSL 2.

When to stay with what you have

If you use one lab, its own app is enough: the ChatGPT app runs parallel Codex chats in worktrees, and Claude’s desktop app runs parallel sessions, natively or in WSL, with no extra subscription. If you’re happy in a terminal, a worktree per task does the job for free.

Reach for another app when you use more than one lab’s agent, when you want every project’s agents in one place, or when you want to keep working after one plan runs out.

How we compared

We read each maker’s homepage, downloads, pricing and docs pages on October 29, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote their own words for the limits, and we don’t count features a maker hasn’t documented: where a page doesn’t mention WSL, the table says so rather than guessing. This category changes weekly, so we recheck this guide against its sources at least once a month, and the date at the foot of the page says when we last did.