# Atheos vs Local Deep Research — Fit & Features

Canonical: https://trutool.co/compare/atheos-vs-local-deep-research
Author: Snehil (https://trutool.co/authors/snehil)

Compare Atheos and Local Deep Research by use case, features, limitations, and evaluation questions.

## Compare fit, features, and limitations

### Atheos
Atheos is an open source, web-based, cloud IDE and code editor with minimal footprint and requirements, built on top of Codiad by Fluidbyte.
Best fit: People and teams evaluating developer tools for a specific workflow.
- Editing
Before you choose: Test a representative task, inspect outputs, and confirm integrations, permissions, data handling, licensing, and current costs.
Pricing: https://atheos.io
- [Read Atheos profile](https://trutool.co/tools/atheos): Read Atheos profile

### Local Deep Research
~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.
Best fit: People and teams evaluating developer tools for a specific workflow.
- Document workflows
Before you choose: Test a representative task, inspect outputs, and confirm integrations, permissions, data handling, licensing, and current costs.
Pricing: https://github.com/pricing
- [Read Local Deep Research profile](https://trutool.co/tools/local-deep-research): Read Local Deep Research profile