Agentic AI Index
Compare the best Coding agents (2026)
This page compares 31 coding agents that write, edit, and ship software with varying degrees of autonomy. Each vendor is scored across 14 buyer-facing capabilities, including tool calling, code execution, repository awareness, human oversight, and deployment control. Use it to see the whole field before narrowing to a shortlist.
Feature coverage ranking. Scores are based on public-source research across 14 buyer-facing agentic AI capabilities. Unknown / Unspecified means evidence was insufficient in the reviewed public materials, not a definitive absence of capability.
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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A
Agent Zero
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A
Aider
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A
Anthropic Claude Code
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A
Augment Code
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B
Blackbox AI
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B
Blink
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C
Cline
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C
Codebuff
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C
CodeRabbit
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C
Cognition
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C
Compyle
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C
Continue
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C
Cosine
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c
cubic
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C
Cursor
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F
Factory
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G
GitHub Copilot
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G
Google Antigravity
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G
Google Jules
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 Goose |
 JetBrains AI |
 Kilo Code |
 Kiro |
 OpenAI Codex |
 OpenCode |
 OpenHands |
 Qodo |
 Snyk |
 Sourcegraph |
 Tabnine |
 Warp |
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
— | Free / OSS | Usage-based (via Claude plan + API) | From $100/mo flat · Business (up to 50 seats) | Free | Free tier (credits, DB/auth/hosting on subdomain) · Pro ~$20-25/mo (custom domains, code export) · Team ~$50/mo · credit-based (rollover) | Free / OSS | Freebuff free (open source, ad-supported) · Codebuff paid credit-based from ~$100/mo up to ~$500/mo · open source (MIT), BYO models | Free · paid from $12/dev/mo | $20/mo | Free-forever plan · additional paid tiers not yet fully public · API available | Free / OSS | Hobby $20/seat/mo (5M credits) · Professional $200/seat/mo (60M credits) · credits per task; top-ups available · BYO Claude/OpenAI/Copilot uses your own subscription · enterprise air-gapped custom | Free (20 reviews/mo; free for public repos) · Team ~$30-40/dev/mo (40k lines) · Pro ~$79-99/dev/mo (nightly scans, auto-fix) · Enterprise custom | From $20/mo · free tier | Pro $20/mo · Plus $100/mo · Max $200/mo (usage-credit model; free Droid Core pool; prepaid Extra Usage $10 min) · Teams/Enterprise custom | From $10/mo · free tier | $20/mo | Free · Pro $20/mo (via Google AI Pro) | Free / OSS | From $10/mo | — | $20/mo | Usage-based (via ChatGPT plan + API) | Free / OSS | Free (OSS + Cloud Individual) · Enterprise custom | From $30/user/mo · free tier | Free ($0) · Team $25/contributing-dev/mo (5+ devs, up to 10 licenses) · Ignite ~$1,260/dev/yr (up to 50) · Enterprise custom | Cody Enterprise $59/user/mo (annual) · platform ~$16K/yr+ | From $39/user/mo | Free · Build $20/mo |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
— | usage | quota + usage beyond quota | hybrid | hybrid | Credit-based: each message to the AI agent consumes credits by complexity (unused credits roll over); paid tiers add usage, custom domains, code export, and per-seat team workspaces | usage | Managed paid tiers are credit-based (usage). The open source CLI is free to self-host (you pay your own model provider or run local models). Freebuff is free and ad-supported. | hybrid | quota + usage beyond quota | Free-forever plan plus paid tiers (exact structure not yet fully public); API available | usage | Seat-based subscription with a monthly Cosine Credit pool per seat (credits consumed when the agent reads, plans, or writes code); additional seats add users and credits; top-ups available; enterprise/air-gapped via custom agreements. BYO model subscription path bills model usage to your own provider. | Per-developer/month subscription tiers with a monthly reviewed-line allowance (added/deleted diff lines cubic reads); free tier capped by monthly review count; enterprise custom | hybrid | hybrid | hybrid | hybrid | hybrid | usage | hybrid | — | credits | quota + usage beyond quota | hybrid | usage | hybrid | seats | seats | seats | hybrid |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
— | Medium variable cost | High variable cost | High variable cost | Low variable cost | High variable cost | Medium variable cost | High variable cost | Low variable cost | High variable cost | Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost | High variable cost | Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost | High variable cost | Medium variable cost | Low variable cost | Low variable cost | Medium variable cost | Low variable cost | — | Low variable cost | High variable cost | Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost | Low variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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No free tierTrial
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Free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Free tier
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No free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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No free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Free tier
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No free tier
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Free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Free tier
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Free tierTrial
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No free tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
— | Self-serve | Self-serve | Mixed | Mixed | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Mixed | Mixed | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | — | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed | Mixed | Sales call | Self-serve |
Capability matrix (31 vendors)
14 buyer-facing capabilities · researched from public sources
| Vendor | Integrations & Tool Calling | Workflow Orchestration | Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Human Oversight & Guardrails | Security, Identity & Governance | Observability & Auditability | Memory & State Persistence | Deployment & Data Residency | Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Triggers & Channel Coverage | Model Flexibility & Routing | APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Browser & Computer Use |
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| Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | |
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A
Aider
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Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | No | Partial | Partial | Full | No | No | Full | Partial | Partial | No |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | Partial | No | Full | Full | Full | |
| Full | Full | Full | No | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | No | |
| Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | Unknown | Unknown | |
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B
Blink
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Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | Partial | Partial |
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C
Cline
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Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | No |
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C
Codebuff
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Partial | Full | Full | Partial | No | Partial | No | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Partial |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Full | Partial | Full | Full | No | |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Full | Partial | No | Full | No | Full | Partial | Full | |
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C
Compyle
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Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | No | Partial | No | No | No | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
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C
Continue
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Full | Full | Full | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Full | No |
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C
Cosine
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Full | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | Full | No | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial |
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c
cubic
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Full | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | No | Partial | Partial | No | No | Full | Partial |
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C
Cursor
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Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Full |
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F
Factory
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Full | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Full | Full |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | No | |
| Full | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | Unknown | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Full | |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | Partial | No | Full | Full | No | |
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G
Goose
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Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | No |
| Full | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Full | No | |
| Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | |
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K
Kiro
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Full | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Full | No |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | Full | Full | No | |
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O
OpenCode
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Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | No | No | Full | Full | Partial | No |
| Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Full | |
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Q
Qodo
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Full | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | No | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | No |
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S
Snyk
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Partial | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | No |
| Full | Partial | Full | No | Full | Full | No | Full | No | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | No | |
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T
Tabnine
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Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | No |
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W
Warp
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Full | Full | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Partial | Partial | Full | Full | Partial | No |
Full / Explicit= Confirmed supportedPartial= Partial / limitedNo / Not documented= Not publicly documented as first-classUnknown / Unspecified= Not verified in public sources