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Open source

Micro Agent

Test-driven AI agent that iterates until your tests pass
An open-source agent from Builder.io that generates a test for the desired behavior first, then writes and repeatedly revises code until the test suite passes. Its deliberately narrow, test-anchored loop is designed to produce reliably working code rather than broad autonomous changes.

Freemium

Pixee

Automated security triage and fix agent for codebases
An agentic application-security tool that triages vulnerability findings, filters false positives, and opens developer-ready fix pull requests that match existing code conventions. It operates as a GitHub app and enterprise platform for clearing security backlogs.

Freemium

Korbit

AI code reviews for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
An AI code-review bot that automatically reviews pull requests across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, detecting bugs and explaining fixes inside the developer workflow. It also surfaces team-level code-quality analytics for engineering leaders.

Freemium

Bito

AI code review agent plus a cost-saving model router
Bito provides an AI Code Review Agent that posts context-aware feedback on pull requests, and its Governor product routes coding-agent requests from tools like Claude Code and Cursor to right-sized models to cut inference costs. Free and paid plans are offered.

Freemium

cubic

AI code review that flags bugs and enforces standards in PRs
An AI-powered code-review tool that reviews pull requests and scans codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities while enforcing team coding standards. It integrates with GitHub workflows and offers free and paid plans.

Freemium

Graphite

Stacked-PR workflow platform with the Diamond AI reviewer
A code-review platform built around stacked pull requests, whose Diamond AI reviewer provides immediate, codebase-aware feedback on every PR. It layers merge queues and review analytics on top of GitHub, with free and paid tiers.

Freemium

Sourcery

Automated code review for bugs, security, and quality
An AI code reviewer that scans pull requests and codebases for bugs, vulnerabilities, and quality issues, posting actionable comments in GitHub and GitLab. It started as a Python refactoring tool and is free for open-source projects with paid team plans.

Paid

Ellipsis

Cloud platform for running governed coding agents
A platform that began as an AI code-review and bug-fixing bot for pull requests and now focuses on running coding agents in the cloud with enterprise governance and isolated environments. It targets teams that want local-development flexibility with centralized controls.

Paid

Greptile

AI code reviewer that indexes your whole codebase
An AI code-review bot that builds a graph index of a repository and uses a swarm of agents to catch bugs, security risks, and logic errors in pull requests. It integrates with GitHub and GitLab and is sold as a paid product with a trial.

Freemium

Qodo

AI code review and governance platform, maker of PR-Agent
Formerly Codium, Qodo provides agents for code review, test generation, and coding across IDE, git, and CLI, with its Merge product reviewing pull requests using full codebase context. Its open-source PR-Agent underpins the review workflow, and hosted plans include a free tier.

Freemium

CodeRabbit

AI code review for pull requests with codebase context
An AI code-review platform that automatically reviews pull requests with line-by-line comments, PR triage with risk scoring, and security checks, integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps. It is free for open-source repositories with paid plans for private teams.

Paid

Tabnine

Privacy-focused AI coding assistant with agentic workflows
A long-running AI coding assistant offering completions, chat, and agentic workflows with an emphasis on enterprise security, private deployment, and codebase personalization. It can run air-gapped or on-premises for regulated environments and is sold via paid subscription.

Freemium

Warp

Agentic development environment built on a modern terminal
A reimagined terminal that evolved into an agentic development environment, letting developers prompt, steer, and review multiple coding agents alongside standard shell workflows. It offers free and paid tiers based on AI request volume.

Freemium

Kiro

Spec-driven agentic IDE from AWS
An agentic AI development environment from AWS that turns prompts into executable specs before implementation, and runs parallel agents across large codebases with property-based correctness checks. It offers a free tier with paid plans based on agent usage.

Freemium

Amazon Q Developer

AWS's generative AI assistant with agentic coding features
Amazon's AI software development assistant provides agentic chat, code transformation, testing, documentation, and security scanning across IDEs, the CLI, and the AWS console. A perpetual free tier includes a monthly allowance of agentic interactions, with a paid Pro tier for teams.

Freemium

GitHub Copilot

GitHub's AI assistant with an autonomous coding agent for issues and PRs
GitHub's AI developer assistant spans code completion, chat, and an autonomous coding agent that can be assigned issues and open pull requests directly on GitHub, alongside agents from Anthropic and OpenAI. A free tier offers limited completions and chat, with paid individual and enterprise plans.

Freemium

Replit Agent

Cloud agent that builds and deploys full apps from prompts
Replit's AI agent builds, tests, and deploys applications from natural-language descriptions inside Replit's browser-based cloud workspace, handling environment setup, databases, and hosting. A free tier is available, with subscriptions covering heavier agent usage.

Paid

Factory

Enterprise platform for agent-driven software development
An enterprise "autonomy stack" whose Droids agents handle software development tasks across the terminal, IDE, browser, Slack, and CI. It targets large engineering organizations automating coding, review, and maintenance work at scale.

Freemium

Jules

Google's asynchronous coding agent powered by Gemini
An autonomous coding agent from Google that clones a repository into a cloud VM and works asynchronously on tasks such as bug fixes, dependency updates, and tests, returning pull requests. It offers a free tier with daily task limits and higher limits through Google AI subscriptions.

Open source

OpenHands

Open-source platform for software engineering agents
Formerly OpenDevin, OpenHands is an open-source platform for running coding agents via GUI, CLI, and SDK, in local, remote, or cloud sandboxes. It acts as a control center that can drive its own agent as well as external ones on tasks like issue fixing and code modification.

Open source

Refact.ai

Open-source autonomous coding agent with self-hosting options
An open-source AI coding agent that integrates into IDEs to plan and execute engineering tasks end to end, with support for on-premise and self-hosted deployment. It has ranked highly on SWE-bench-style agentic benchmarks and supports multiple model backends.

Freemium

Trae

ByteDance's AI-powered IDE and coding assistant
An AI development platform from ByteDance whose TraeCode product provides an agentic IDE experience with autonomous multi-step coding, alongside chat-based assistance. It offers a free tier with paid plans for higher model usage.

Paid

Augment Code

Context-aware AI agents for large production codebases
An AI software development platform whose agents work across large, complex codebases with a proprietary context engine, spanning IDE extensions, a CLI, and the Cosmos platform for moving work from spec to verification. It focuses on automating tasks like code review, testing, and incident response for professional teams.

Freemium

Zencoder

AI agent platform orchestrating models across the dev lifecycle
A coding-agent platform that coordinates multiple frontier models to plan, build, test, and review code, with integrations for IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, and issue trackers. It targets both individual developers and enterprise engineering organizations.

Freemium

JetBrains Junie

JetBrains' coding agent integrated into its IDEs
An AI coding agent from JetBrains that plans and executes multi-step coding tasks inside IntelliJ-family IDEs, delegating work while keeping the developer in review control. It is bundled with JetBrains AI subscriptions, which include a limited free tier.

Open source

Kilo Code

Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI
An open-source coding agent, now part of Anaconda, that works across VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, the CLI, and cloud environments. It offers orchestration across modes (architect, coder, debugger) and access to 500+ models with no markup on inference pricing.

Open source

Cline

Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code and CLI
An open-source coding agent available as an IDE extension, CLI, and SDK that performs multi-file edits, runs terminal commands, and plans tasks with human-in-the-loop approval. It is bring-your-own-key across major model providers and supports MCP tooling.

Open source

Qwen Code

Open-source terminal coding agent built around Qwen's coder models
A command-line agentic coding tool from the Qwen team, adapted from Gemini CLI and optimized for Qwen3-Coder models. It automates coding workflows with features like auto-memory and skills, and supports multiple LLM providers.

Open source

Plandex

Terminal-based AI coding agent designed for large, multi-file tasks
An open-source coding agent focused on large projects and long-running tasks, with cumulative diff review, sandboxed changes, and up to 2M tokens of effective context. The hosted cloud service is winding down, but the self-hosted open-source version remains maintained.

Open source

Crush

Charm's glamorous multi-model coding agent for the terminal
A terminal-based coding agent from Charmbracelet that pairs multiple LLMs with project context, LSP integration, and MCP support inside a polished TUI. It lets developers switch models mid-session while retaining conversation context.

Open source

OpenCode

Open-source coding agent for terminal, IDE, and desktop
An open-source AI coding agent from the SST team that runs in the terminal with a TUI, as well as in IDEs and a desktop app. It is provider-agnostic, supporting Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and local models, with an emphasis on privacy and no code storage.

Open source

Goose

Extensible open-source AI agent for engineering tasks, from Block
A general-purpose AI agent originally built at Block and now hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation, available as a desktop app and CLI. It plans and executes tasks end to end — editing files, running shell commands, installing dependencies, and iterating on test output — with any supported LLM.

Open source

Aider

AI pair programming in your terminal with git integration
A terminal-based pair-programming tool that lets developers edit local git repositories with a wide range of LLMs, automatically committing changes with sensible messages. It maps larger codebases for context and works with most popular model providers.

Open source

Gemini CLI

Open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into the terminal
Google's open-source terminal agent that connects Gemini models to the command line for code analysis, generation, file editing, and task automation. It supports MCP extensions and offers a free usage tier through a personal Google account.

Open source

OpenAI Codex CLI

OpenAI's lightweight coding agent that runs locally in the terminal
An open-source command-line coding agent from OpenAI that plans and executes coding tasks on the local machine, editing files and running commands under configurable approval modes. The CLI itself is open source, with model usage covered by ChatGPT plans or OpenAI API billing.

Paid

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal and IDE
A coding agent from Anthropic that runs in the terminal, IDEs, and CI, using Claude models to read a codebase, edit files, run commands, and manage git workflows from natural-language instructions. Access is included with Claude Pro/Max subscriptions or billed through the Anthropic API.