Coding agents · CA2
Multi-file refactor with an agent
19 candidates. None have been tested, so this list is alphabetical, not a rank.
Standard test task
Rename a core module and migrate a callback API to async/await across ~30 files; tests must pass.
Not tested yet. A dash is an empty score, not a zero. We do not estimate results, prices, or ranks.
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Aider
Terminal pair programmer with git integration
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Amp
Pay per use (credits); bring-your-own subscription/keys supported
No free tier
Checked 15 Oct 2026
Amp Free closed to new users since Feb 2026; existing free allowance reduced May 2026.
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
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- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Augment Code
Paid with trial
No free tier
Pricing being checked
Why this price is unverified
unverified (pricing page JS-rendered) https://www.augmentcode.com/pricing
Large-codebase context engine and agent
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
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- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Claude Code
Anthropic's terminal/IDE coding agent
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
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No score. We do not estimate one.
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Cline
Autonomous coding agent in VS Code
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Cursor
AI-first code editor with agent mode and background agents
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Gemini CLI
Google's open-source terminal agent
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Goose
Free open source
Free tier
Pricing being checked
Why this price is unverified
unverified (pricing page not fetchable: bot-blocked/JS/no /pricing)
Block's open-source local agent, MCP-native
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Junie
Paid (JetBrains AI plans)
No free tier
Pricing being checked
Why this price is unverified
unverified (pricing page not fetchable: bot-blocked/JS/no /pricing)
JetBrains' coding agent
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
Unranked
Kilo Code
Open-source VS Code/JetBrains coding agent
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Kiro
AWS spec-driven agentic IDE
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
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- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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OpenAI Codex
Included in ChatGPT plans / API
No free tier
Pricing being checked
Why this price is unverified
unverified (pricing page not fetchable: bot-blocked/JS/no /pricing)
OpenAI's cloud and CLI coding agent
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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opencode
Open-source terminal coding agent
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Qwen Code
Terminal agent for Qwen coder models
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Roo Code
VS Code agent with custom modes
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Trae
ByteDance AI IDE
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Warp
Agentic terminal/dev environment
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
Unranked
Windsurf
Agentic IDE (formerly Codeium)
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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Zed
Fast editor with built-in agent panel
- Job resultWeight 40
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- Speed and effortWeight 15
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- Price and free tierWeight 15
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- Ease of startWeight 10
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- Reliability and trustWeight 10
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- Community signalWeight 10
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- Last tested
- Not tested yet
- Evidence
- No test evidence yet.
No score. We do not estimate one.
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