Curated collection
Autonomous AI Coding Agents
16 of the 95 AI coding agents in our index plan and execute a coding task end-to-end without a human driving each step — verified against the listed facts of each tool's own Published listing, not the autonomous tag alone.
On this page
An autonomous coding agent takes a task in plain English, plans the steps, edits the files, runs the tests, and reports back — usually inside its own sandbox and sometimes opening a pull request for human review. That is the bar this page draws the line at: a coding tool you can hand a non-trivial job to and walk away from, not a completion engine that needs a developer pressing keys at every step.
At a glance
- agents
- 16
- curated for this set
- Free to start
- 12 of 16
- a free or freemium entry tier
- Public API
- 15 of 16
- every entry checked
- Publish a price
- 16 of 16
- an anchor price on their own page
What this collection covers
The 16 members below clear it on the published facts of their own listings; the methodology states the test so you can check ours against any tool you already use. Every entry is cross-checked against its listing's own `whatItDoes`, `keyFeatures` and `integrations` text, not the `autonomous` tag alone — which is why this set is shorter than the count of tagged listings and why a few near-misses (pair-programming tools, prompt-to-app builders, completion engines) are recorded as exclusions rather than left ambiguous.
Members are grouped by the surface the agent runs on: a terminal-native loop you drive from the shell, an agent inside an editor or IDE that already has the project open, or a managed cloud environment the vendor spins up for the run. The groupings describe how you interact with the agent, not how autonomous it is — every member below meets the same bar in the methodology.
How these 16 agents were picked
A tool earns a place here only if its own Published, sourced listing is in this site's coding-agents category AND describes a coding agent that takes a task, plans the steps, and executes them end-to-end without a human pressing keys at each step — reading, planning and editing the codebase itself, running the tests, and surfacing the result for review. A completion engine, a chat assistant that only suggests, or a tool that names a coding workflow but requires step-by-step human approval at every turn does not clear the bar. Verified directly against each listing's `whatItDoes`, `keyFeatures` and `integrations` text — not inferred from the `autonomous` tag alone. A tool that names a sandbox, opens a PR, or ships a 'task → result' loop in its own published copy clears the bar; a tool that needs the developer to copy-paste a suggestion into the editor does not.
The 16 agents on this shelf
Terminal-native

Antigravity CLI
Google's terminal-native coding agent that replaced the open-source Gemini CLI in June 2026. Same Antigravity 2.0 agent core, now closed-source and tied to a Google AI subscription.
Coding agentsFreemiumClaudeFree tierMulti-agentVerified 4 days agoBest for Developers already inside the Google ecosystem (Google AI subscription, GCP billing) who want a free terminal agent with Gemini, Claude and gpt-oss model access, especially anyone migrating off a now-sunset Gemini CLI workflow.
Google's terminal-native coding agent that replaced the open-source Gemini CLI in June 2026 — same Antigravity 2.0 agent core that takes a task, plans the steps, edits the working tree and reports back, free for Individuals.

Claude Code
Anthropic’s terminal-native coding agent with full-repository context. Included from the $17/month Claude Pro plan, or billed per token through the API.
Coding agentsFreemiumAutonomousClaudeVerified 3 days agoBest for Developers and teams who want a terminal-native, scriptable agent that composes with CI and real engineering workflows.
Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent with full-repository context — plans a multi-step task, edits files, runs commands, and reports results, included from the $17/month Claude Pro plan or billed per token through the API.

OpenAI Codex CLI
OpenAI's open-source (Apache-2.0) terminal coding agent, bundled into ChatGPT plans from Free through Pro — Business seats are grandfathered-only.
Coding agentsFreemiumAutonomousFree tierGPTVerified 4 days agoBest for Developers who already pay for a ChatGPT plan and want a terminal-native agent with granular, inspectable sandbox/permission controls across CLI, desktop and IDE surfaces.
OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent (Apache-2.0), bundled into ChatGPT plans from Free through Pro — plans, edits, runs commands and commits inside the working directory on a single task prompt.

Goose
Open source AI coding agent with a desktop app, CLI, and 70+ MCP extensions across 15+ LLM providers, backed by the Linux Foundation
Coding agentsFreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedVerified 7 days agoBest for Devs who want an open source coding agent that reuses an existing Claude or ChatGPT plan
Open-source AI coding agent (Apache 2.0) with a desktop app, CLI and 70+ MCP extensions across 15+ LLM providers, Linux Foundation project — runs a coding task end-to-end without human input, with the desktop app rendering interactive MCP UI inline.

Muse Code
Meta's terminal coding agent — pay standard rate and it never trains on your code, or opt into Contributor pricing for a steep discount if you let it.
Coding agentsPaidAutonomousMulti-agentVerified 4 days agoBest for Cost-sensitive teams willing to trade code privacy for Contributor tier's roughly 12x cheaper input and 21x cheaper output, or anyone with a large multi-part refactor that benefits from several sub-agents working in parallel isolated worktrees.
Meta's terminal coding agent that plans a coding task, executes it end-to-end and cross-checks against its own parallel runs — pay standard API rate, or opt into Contributor pricing for a steep discount in exchange for letting Meta train on your prompts.

OpenCode
A free, open-source (MIT) AI coding agent for the terminal, desktop and IDE, with 75+ model providers, built-in subscription login, and a tested model marketplace behind it.
Coding agentsFreemiumClaudeFree tierGPTVerified 4 days agoBest for Developers who want a genuinely free, fully open-source coding agent that works with any model provider, including their own local Ollama models, without being locked into one vendor's terminal tool.
Free, open-source (MIT) AI coding agent for terminal, desktop and IDE with 75+ model providers and a tested model marketplace — takes a task, plans the changes, executes the edits, and reports back without developer steering.
IDE-integrated

Cline
The open-source coding agent. Bring your own key. Runs in your editor, terminal, and as an SDK, with optional ClinePass for flat-rate open-model access.
Coding agentsFreemiumAutonomousClaudeEnterpriseVerified 4 days agoBest for Developers and teams who want a transparent, open-source, model-agnostic agent they fully control and pay for by usage, with optional flat-rate access to open-weight models.
Open-source coding agent that runs in your editor, terminal or as an SDK with bring-your-own-key on 100+ models — plans a multi-file edit and executes it end-to-end without manual approval per step, with optional ClinePass for flat-rate open-model access.

Cursor
The AI-first code editor (a VS Code fork) with a coding agent that reads, plans and edits across your whole codebase. Free Hobby tier, Pro from $20/month.
Coding agentsFreemiumAutonomousClaudeEnterpriseVerified 2 days agoBest for Professional developers who want a powerful AI agent woven into a familiar VS Code-based editor, with first-class model choice and the option to be hands-off via Cursor Router.
Cursor's coding agent reads, plans and edits across your whole codebase with full project context — a free Hobby tier lets you try the autonomous flow before paying, and every paid tier ships Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Cursor's own Grok 4.6.

GitHub Copilot
GitHub's AI coding assistant with an issue-to-PR coding agent, multi-agent control plane (Claude Code + OpenAI Codex bundled), and broad IDE coverage. Free tier with 2,000 completions/month; Pro from $10/month.
Coding agentsFreemiumAutonomousClaudeEnterpriseVerified 3 days agoBest for Enterprise and team developers already in GitHub and mainstream IDEs who want governed, reviewable AI coding at scale, with optional access to Claude Code and OpenAI Codex through the same interface.
GitHub's AI coding assistant with an issue-to-PR coding agent and a multi-agent control plane bundling Claude Code and OpenAI Codex — the agent reads an issue, plans the change, edits the code and opens a pull request, free tier with 2,000 completions/month.

Junie
JetBrains' own AI coding agent. Plans before it codes, drives the real IDE debugger, runs across the JetBrains IDE family plus a standalone CLI. Free 30-day Pro trial; Pro from $10/month.
Coding agentsPaidAutonomousClaudeEnterpriseVerified 3 days agoBest for Developers and teams already standardized on a JetBrains IDE who want an agent that shares the same debugger, project index, and version control already built into their editor.
JetBrains' own AI coding agent — plans before it codes, drives the real IDE debugger, runs across the JetBrains IDE family and a standalone CLI on a single task prompt, free 30-day Pro trial then $10/month.

Kilo Code
Open source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and Cloud with 500+ models and no markup
Coding agentsFreemiumClaudeEnterpriseFree tierVerified 8 days agoOpen-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI and Cloud with 500+ models and no markup — takes a coding task and runs it end-to-end on a free Individual tier, with optional Kilo Pass credits for hosted model access.
Cloud platforms

Augment Code
AI agent platform that automates code review, ticket-to-PR delivery, security remediation, and incident response for dev teams.
Coding agentsPaidAutonomousEnterpriseMulti-agentVerified 4 days agoBest for Engineering leaders at organizations who want AI agents running full SDLC loops end to end, with humans at the quality gates, rather than inline completion assistants.
AI agent platform that automates code review, ticket-to-PR delivery, security remediation and incident response for dev teams — runs each task through to completion in its own environment, $100/month Business up to 50 seats.

Devin
Devin is Cognition's autonomous coding agent: assign a task through Slack, CLI, or the web app, and it plans, edits, tests, and opens a pull request inside its own sandbox.
Coding agentsFreemiumAutonomousClaudeEnterpriseVerified 4 days agoBest for Engineering teams offloading well-scoped migration tasks without adding headcount
Cognition's autonomous coding agent — takes a task through Slack, CLI or web, plans the change, edits, tests and opens a pull request inside its own sandbox, the canonical 2026 example of the autonomous-coding-agent shape.

Factory
Agent-native coding platform that coordinates specialized Droids across the full software development lifecycle, from a $20/mo Pro CLI to sales-gated enterprise deployment.
Coding agentsPaidAutonomousEnterpriseMulti-agentVerified 4 days agoBest for Engineering organizations that want AI agents handling more of the SDLC than code generation alone (triage, testing, release and documentation) and are willing to pay enterprise pricing for deployment flexibility and compliance controls.
Agent-native coding platform coordinating specialized Droids across the full software development lifecycle — from a $20/month Pro CLI that takes a task and runs it autonomously, to sales-gated enterprise deployment.

OpenHands
Open source platform for cloud coding agents. Free local OSS, free Individual Cloud tier, self-hosted Enterprise with SSO and RBAC.
Coding agentsFreemiumAutonomousClaudeEnterpriseVerified 4 days agoBest for Open source-minded engineering teams and enterprises that want a self-hostable coding agent platform
Open-source platform for cloud coding agents — the agent runs in a sandbox, plans the task, and edits files autonomously, free local OSS and a free Individual Cloud tier with 10 daily conversations.

Replit Agent
AI agent that builds, deploys and fixes full-stack apps from a chat prompt inside Replit's browser IDE.
Coding agentsFreemiumAutonomousClaudeEnterpriseVerified 3 days agoBest for Non-technical founders who want a chat prompt to become a deployed, database-backed app
AI agent inside Replit's browser IDE that builds, deploys and fixes full-stack apps from a chat prompt — runs autonomously across the build/test/fix loop until the task is done, free Starter plan with daily agent credits.
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