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Coding Agents

Coding agents split into two camps: assistants that suggest as you type, and autonomous agents that take a task and return a diff. They are priced and evaluated very differently, and the second group is where the market is moving.

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Claude Code

Coding Assistants

Anthropic's coding agent for terminal, IDE, desktop and web that commits and opens PRs; included from $20 a month or billed per API token.

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Cline

Coding Assistants

Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI and desktop that asks approval per action; client is free, you pay for model tokens.

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Cursor

Coding Assistants

AI code editor whose cloud agents work on their own branch and open pull requests; Pro is $20 a month with extra usage billed at API rates.

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Devin

Coding Assistants

Cognition's cloud engineer takes tickets from Slack, Linear or Jira and opens pull requests; free tier, Pro $20 a month, Max $200 a month.

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GitHub Copilot

Coding Assistants

GitHub's cloud agent works one branch and one pull request per task; Pro is $10 a month plus usage metered in AI credits at $0.01 each.

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