Text-to-CAD: review, pricing, security and alternatives

What Text-to-CAD does

Text-to-CAD belongs to the business agents family: agents specialised in one job: customer support, sales, finance, legal, HR, security. On our grid it ranks #6 of the 52 projects of this family listed in the directory.

It is not an agent in itself: it is a component other agents use (memory, isolated execution, web access, model gateway or monitoring). You pick it based on the agent or framework it has to equip.

Who is Text-to-CAD for?

It targets a specific job (customer support, sales, finance, legal…) with workflows already set up. Typical tasks people give it:

• handle first-line customer requests
• prepare standard documents
• track cases and follow up

Access and human control

Its documentation does not detail the access granted to the agent: check the settings before connecting it to your accounts.

We could not establish whether it asks for human approval before sensitive actions: test it first on an unimportant account or folder.

Text-to-CAD pricing

The code is free, under the MIT licence.

Getting started with Text-to-CAD

1. Install it: the project ships as a Python package (install with pip or uv). The exact command is in the repository README.
2. Start with the minimal example from the docs, then add one tool at a time and check what the agent does with it.
3. Give it a short, checkable task, review the result and its action log, then raise the difficulty step by step.

Security: risk level

A business agent acts on the company's behalf: define what it may promise, refund or change, and keep a record of its decisions.

Three habits: least privilege (minimal rights, dedicated keys), human approval for irreversible actions, a sandbox for code execution. The AI agent security check reviews your setup in a few minutes.

Project activity and releases

Created on April 22, 2026, the earthtojake/text-to-cad repository has 22,895 stars, 2,229 forks and 4 open issues, with 1,462 commits in total. It received changes this month.

Over the last 52 weeks: 1,116 commits, an average of 21.5 per week.

87 releases in total; 30 in the last twelve months. Latest release: v0.7.26, on October 20, 2026.

Text-to-CAD vs other business agents

GitHub stars of the best-rated open-source projects in the business agents family. Stars measure attention, not quality: a heavily promoted project collects them fast, a specialised tool will have few.

Text-to-CAD and other business agents at a glance

The 7 best-ranked agents in the same family, 7 of them open source. The score out of 100 only applies to open-source projects; for proprietary services we show the published entry price. A dash marks information the documentation does not state.

How we rated it

Score: 73/100, computed only from public, verifiable data, with no subjective testing or partnership:

• Adoption 28/40: 22,895 stars on a log scale (40 points from about 200,000).
• Activity 30/30: last commit less than a month ago, 30 releases in six months, 1,116 commits in a year.
• Framework 15/30: licence, default human approval, self-hosting, model choice and documentation site.

The score does not say whether the agent will succeed at your tasks: it measures how solid the project is. The full grid is on the method page.