December v0.3.31

december, a coding agent for terminal and cloud.

Lives in your shell to write code, fix bugs, and execute commands with zero latency—with instant cloud sandboxes whenever you need them.

CLI supports providers:
50+ more providers

December is an coding agent that lives in your terminal. It understands your codebase and helps you build faster by writing code, fixing bugs, and running commands. Use it directly in your terminal or alongside your favorite IDE.

What we do

Writes code & runs commands:

Ask it to build features, fix bugs, or run tests. It does the work for you.

Cloud Handoff:

Use /handoff to continue your session on trydecember.com

Bring your own AI:

Use API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and 20+ others, or log in via December to use December credits.

In Production

Our promise is the fastest execution for agents: the kind people feel, not just the kind that tops a benchmark.

Recall latency

PER QUERY, ON PRODUCTION TRAFFIC

SERVER END TO END
SEARCH
187 ms
356 ms
PROFILE
166 ms
248 ms

Tokens processed

PER MONTH

1T+

Organizations

TENS OF MILLIONS OF END USERS

100k+

Independent benchmarks

SWE-CONTEXTBENCH, FEBRUARY 2026

“December performs best overall, achieving FAIL_TO_PASS test rate of 55.95% and highest resolution rate of 30.30%.”

Public benchmarks

STATE OF THE ART ON SWE-BENCH, HUMAN-EVAL AND TERMINAL-BENCH

#1

Our benchmarks

COST PER QUESTION
$7.79
64% less than $21.69
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
81%
up from 69%
Markdown memory
december
AVG TOKENS PER QUESTION 2M 1.5M 1M 0.5M 0 5 10 20 30 50 100 200 299 480 991 1,998 4,998 9,988 FILES IN MEMORY (LOG SCALE)
“Reduced avg response time from 40s → 12s. Using about 40–50% fewer tokens.”
Founder, Chatarmin · on X ↗

Deployment

december runs everywhere, even in air-gapped environments.

We build all the critical infrastructure ourselves. Which means we can deploy it wherever your data lives.

In your data center

001
In your data center

In your VPC

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In your VPC

On your laptop

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On your laptop

The Architecture

Local filesystem speed when you write code. Cloud isolation when you need preview servers.

December bridges the gap between terminal-native execution and collaborative cloud infrastructure. It operates with zero latency inside your existing shell, inspecting git trees and running native test runners directly. When a task requires full-stack web previews or sharing with a team, typing /handoff seamlessly shifts execution to cloud micro-VMs.

Continuous Terminal Loop autonomous verification
Local Shell 0ms Latency Context Map AST & Git Diffs Agent Loop Bash & Tools Test Runner Green Self-Heal Cloud Handoff /handoff Web VM

Features

Engineered for Developer Velocity

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK)

Use Claude 3.7, GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek, or private offline Ollama models. Free forever with 0% token markup.

Git Checkpoints & Diffs

Every file edit is versioned. Inspect line-by-line diffs before committing or rollback instantaneously to any prior point in time.

Parallel Subagents

Dispatch autonomous background agents to survey large repos, read API documentation, and execute parallel code tasks.

Custom Skills & AGENTS.md

Teach December your team's code conventions, architecture principles, and custom slash commands via repository rules.

Live Web Sandboxes

Spin up full-stack dev servers (Next.js, Vite, Node) with public preview URLs to share with colleagues without local tunnels.

Zero-Config Browser App

Prefer the browser? Launch app.trydecember.com for a complete cloud IDE with live previews and full shell access.

Installation

Install via Terminal

package manager
v0.3.31
$ npm install -g @trydecember/cli

Pricing

Developer-Friendly & Transparent

Free forever with your own API keys. Or upgrade to December Cloud for zero-setup VMs.

Developer / BYOK
$0 / forever

Bring your own API keys. 0% token markup.

  • ✓ Full CLI access in your local terminal
  • ✓ Use Claude 3.7, GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, DeepSeek
  • ✓ Offline local Ollama models support
  • ✓ Git checkpoints & diff rollback safety
  • ✓ Unlimited local code generation runs
Recommended
December Cloud
$20 / month

Everything in BYOK, plus managed cloud VMs and shared wallet.

  • ✓ Everything in BYOK tier
  • ✓ $22.00 monthly LLM wallet credits
  • ✓ One-click /handoff to cloud workspace
  • ✓ Hardware-isolated micro-VM sandboxes
  • ✓ Live web previews with TLS tunnels

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions