Nexus
The development environment- Visual workspace for building with AI
- Runs entirely on your Mac
- Your code and history stay with you
- One-time purchase, no recurring fees
Nexus is the interface that sits between large language models and the thing you’re building, and runs entirely on your Mac. Ask in plain words and watch your site change live. Every finished task is saved locally, and nothing goes out until you publish.
Run your own AI models locally on your Mac, right inside Nexus. Nexus adds the visual development environment without another monthly bill or credit system. Nexus is a one-time purchase. No subscription. Buy it once and it’s yours.
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Stop paying for another development environment that charges monthly fees and limits your work with credits when you already have your own AI coding agents.
Nexus is a native macOS integrated development environment that gives you a visual workspace for building with AI. Run open models like Qwen, Llama and Gemma locally on your Mac, right inside Nexus. Nexus provides the interface, not the AI agents.
Your projects stay on your Mac, you decide when to publish, and Nexus never charges subscription fees or sells credits. Pay once, use it forever.
AI models are separate from Nexus. You download and run them yourself, on your own Mac.
What mattersSide by side. |
Typical Cloud AI BuilderYour code, on their servers. |
NexusYour code, on your Mac. |
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Where your code lives |
On their serversYour project is stored in their cloud. | On your MacYour project stays on your Mac, in a folder you own. |
What you pay |
Every month, plus creditsOngoing subscription, and credits used up with every change. | Once, with lifetime updatesA one-time purchase. No subscription and no credits to top up. |
If you stop paying |
Your project or site can stop workingAccess and hosting can be lost if you cancel or run out of credits. | Nothing to stop payingNexus never stops working. You keep using it. Services you connect, like hosting, bill you directly. |
Your tools and hosting |
Locked into their ecosystemTheir editor, their hosting, their database and their tools. | Your choiceUse any framework, any host, any database, and your own editor alongside Nexus. |
Branding on your project |
Can add their brandingMay make branding changes you didn’t ask for, adding their own branding to your product. | NoneYour project carries only your brand. |
Who sees your project |
The platform and whoever you share withYour code, data and usage can be seen by the platform. | Only the services you connectNexus doesn’t see your project. What you share is up to you. |
Where the AI runs |
On their serversYour prompts and code are sent to their cloud. | On your Mac, with MLXRuns models on Apple silicon using MLX, Apple’s open-source machine learning framework. |
Your API keys |
Stored in their cloudYour keys are stored on their servers. | In your Mac’s KeychainOr with the service that needs them. Never in a cloud of ours. |
Your voice |
Basic voice-to-textUsually sent to a server for processing. | Apple’s on-device dictationUses Apple’s secure, encrypted speech recognition on your Mac. |
Nexus is the development environment. It doesn’t include AI models. You download open models and run them locally on your Mac, right inside Nexus.
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