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Best Coding agents, ranked
12 agents, scored on our rubric. Last updated 2026-10-23.
| # | Agent | Score | Starting price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Code Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal, IDE and desktop that edits, runs and ships code. | 8.7 | $20/mo (Claude Pro; $17/mo billed annually) | Developers who want the strongest terminal-first agent |
| 2 | GitHub Copilot (coding agent) GitHub's assistant with agent mode, a cloud coding agent that opens PRs, CLI and code review. | 8.7 | Free; Pro $10/mo; Pro+ $39/mo | Teams already on GitHub who want issue-to-PR automation |
| 3 | OpenAI Codex OpenAI's coding agent across CLI, IDE extension, desktop app and cloud tasks. | 8.4 | Free (limited); Plus $20/mo for cloud features | ChatGPT subscribers who want local plus cloud coding agents |
| 4 | Cursor AI code editor with an Agent, CLI, Cloud Agents and Automations. | 8.4 | Free; Plus $8/mo; Premium $30/mo | Developers who want an agent inside a full IDE |
| 5 | Devin (incl. Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf) Cognition's autonomous software engineer, now spanning Devin Cloud, Devin Desktop (ex-Windsurf), CLI and Review. | 8 | Free; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams from $80/mo | Teams delegating whole tickets to an autonomous agent |
| 6 | Cline Open-source coding agent for VS Code and the CLI that plans, edits and runs commands with approval. | 7.9 | Free (pay for model inference) | Developers who want an open agent with any model |
| 7 | Replit Agent Builds and deploys full apps from a prompt inside Replit's cloud workspace. | 7.8 | Core $20/mo ($18/mo annually) | Non-engineers and founders building prototypes end to end |
| 8 | Amp Sourcegraph's agentic coding tool for the terminal and editor. | 7.7 | Free (Hobby, BYOK); Individual $20/mo | Developers who want a fast-moving frontier agent with transparent usage cost |
| 9 | Google Jules Google's asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repos in a cloud VM. | 7.6 | Free (15 tasks/day); Google AI Pro $19.99/mo | Delegating small, well-scoped GitHub tasks for free |
| 10 | OpenHands Open-source platform for autonomous coding agents, self-hosted or as OpenHands Cloud. | 7.3 | Free self-hosted; Teams $499/mo (up to 10 users) | Teams that need a self-hostable autonomous coding agent |
| 11 | Aider Open-source terminal pair programmer that edits your git repo with any LLM. | 7 | Free (pay for model inference) | Terminal users who want lightweight, git-native edits |
| 12 | Google Antigravity (IDE + CLI) Google's agent-first IDE and CLI that replaced Gemini CLI for consumer and free users. | 7 | Free (basic weekly quota); Google AI Pro $19.99/mo | Google AI subscribers who want an agent-first IDE |