AgentComparison
For: Developers

AI coding agents

Agents that write, change, test and ship code in your repository or in the cloud.

5 agentsVendor documentation, attributedNo hands-on tests

Who this group is for

Developers and teams who review code and want routine engineering work handed off.

What to check first: Repository write access, where code runs, who reviews changes, and usage or credit limits.

Agents in this group

product · coding agent

Claude Code

Anthropic's terminal coding agent for migrations, bug fixes and refactors.

Anthropic describes Claude Code as an agentic tool used from the terminal for tasks such as code migrations and bug fixes.

Documentation researched

Pricing: From $20/month (Pro, per Anthropic pricing page); usage limits apply

Best fit: Developers delegating repository changes from a terminal.

product · software engineering agent

Devin

An autonomous software engineer with its own IDE, shell and browser.

Cognition documents Devin as an autonomous software engineer that writes, runs and tests code, with an IDE, shell and browser.

Documentation researched

Pricing: Free (limited); Pro $20/month; Max $200/month; Teams from $80/month minimum

Best fit: Engineering teams delegating well-scoped, verifiable tickets.

product · application building agent

Replit Agent

Builds and fixes whole apps from plain-language instructions inside Replit.

Replit documents an agent that creates applications, sets up projects, checks its work and fixes problems from natural-language instructions.

Documentation researched

Pricing: Usage-based billing; no single price verified

Best fit: Building apps and related artifacts from natural-language requests.

product · coding agent (editor and cloud agents)

Cursor cloud agents

An AI code editor whose cloud agents work on branches and open pull requests.

Cursor is an AI code editor that also runs cloud agents: isolated virtual machines that clone your repository, work on a separate branch, test the change and push it for review. Agents can be started from the editor, web, mobile, Slack, GitHub, Linear or the API.

Documentation researched

Pricing: Free Hobby tier; Individual $20/month; Teams $40/user/month; extra usage billed on demand (vendor pricing)

Best fit: Developers who want several coding tasks to run in parallel on separate branches and come back to pull requests, screenshots and logs to review.

product · coding agent (Google)

Jules

Google's background coding agent that turns GitHub tasks into pull requests.

Jules is Google's asynchronous coding agent. You pick a GitHub repository and branch, write a prompt, and it clones the repository to a cloud VM, shows a plan, then produces a diff and a pull request. You can also assign tasks with a 'jules' label on a GitHub issue.

Documentation researched

Pricing: Plan prices not stated on the page we read; entry plan limited to 15 tasks a day

Best fit: Developers with GitHub repositories who want routine tasks handled in the background and returned as pull requests to review.

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