Ona vs Claude Code

Claude Code is a CLI tool. It's not an enterprise runtime.

Ona runs background agents inside your VPC, in isolated, ephemeral environments with guardrails and audit logs. Scale agentic coding without turning engineers into the bottleneck.

4xthroughput on repeatable work
92%of PRs co-authored by agents
10-20xfaster migrations
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See it in your VPC

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15-minute walkthrough. No slide deck.

Models are intelligent. The runtime makes them capable.

Claude Code runs on one laptop. Ona adds engineering capacity by running tasks in parallel, safely inside your boundary.

Isolated environments

Every task runs in a fresh, isolated environment. No long-lived state. If something goes wrong, you throw the environment away.

VPC deployment

Deploy runners inside your AWS or GCP account. Code, secrets, and execution stay inside your perimeter. Route model calls through approved providers.

Audit + guardrails

Full audit logs for human and agent actions. Command deny lists and policy controls so destructive commands never run.

What matters in enterprise

Claude Code is a CLI tool for individual developers. Ona is the platform that runs agents across the full development lifecycle.

Where it runs

Ona

Inside your VPC. Code never leaves your perimeter.

Claude Code

On developer laptops. API calls to Anthropic servers.

Multi-agent orchestration

Ona

Command dozens of agents on independent EC2s in your VPC. Parallel execution across repos.

Claude Code

Claude Code Web runs agents on Anthropic's cloud, or locally on Git Worktrees.

Isolation

Ona

Ephemeral VM per task. Mistakes are disposable.

Claude Code

Local machine or CI runner. /sandbox available.

Security

Ona

Command deny lists and kernel-level security guarantees. Every agent runs in an isolated VM.

Claude Code

Permission prompts and bash tool restrictions. Runs on developer laptops.

Governance

Ona

Org guardrails, command deny lists, policy controls.

Claude Code

managed-settings.json for Enterprise tier.

Parallelism

Ona

Run agents across hundreds of repos simultaneously.

Claude Code

One session per developer. Some CI automation.

Background execution

Ona

Agents work while your laptop is closed.

Claude Code

Requires active terminal session or CI runner.

Automations

Ona

Event-triggered agents respond to PRs, CVEs, or schedules and execute across repos automatically.

Claude Code

No built-in automation. Requires custom CI/CD wiring for each workflow.

Mobile access

Ona

Full experience from any device: review code, monitor agents, approve PRs.

Claude Code

Limited mobile experience. Requires terminal access.

Audit trail

Ona

Every human and agent action logged. SIEM export.

Claude Code

180-day audit logs on Enterprise plan.

Best for

Ona

Large-scale rollouts, enterprises, parallelization.

Claude Code

Experiments with AI, individual developers, small teams.

When making developers faster isn't enough

CLI tools accelerate individual developers. These problems need a different approach.

CVE remediation at scale

The problem: Security wants patches everywhere, now.
CLI limitation: One engineer can't grind through 300 repos with a CLI.
With Ona: Run remediation in parallel, open PRs, attach evidence. Keep an audit trail.

Org-wide migrations

The problem: Java 8 to 17. Framework upgrades. CI standardization.
CLI limitation: Backlog work that never gets funded, one repo at a time.
With Ona: Agents execute repeatable steps fleet-wide. Humans review edge cases.

Platform standardization

The problem: Every team has a slightly different setup.
CLI limitation: CLI tools can't enforce consistency across an org.
With Ona: Standardize via devcontainer.json and prebuilds. Environments are deterministic.

Developer onboarding

The problem: Time-to-first-PR is embarrassing and expensive.
CLI limitation: Local setup scripts break on every machine.
With Ona: Prebuilt environments and consistent tooling. "Works on my machine" goes to zero.

One CLI, one developer. Ona covers the full development lifecycle.

Claude Code accelerates individual developers in the terminal. Ona runs agents across the entire SDLC, from writing code to testing, reviewing, deploying, and maintaining it at organizational scale.

Claude Code

CLI tool: refactors, debugging, planning, interactive coding for one developer

Ona

Full SDLC: coding, testing, code review, migrations, CVEs, standardization, running in parallel in your VPC

With Ona

Claude models gain isolation, parallelism, and governance. Working across your entire org, not just one terminal.

Common questions

Scale agentic coding. Start with the boundary.

See Ona run a migration, CVE workflow, or code review end-to-end inside your VPC.

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