# Autonomous AI Coding Agents

> Source: https://theagentsindex.com/collections/autonomous-coding-agents (curated, quality-gated, re-verified)

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.

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.

| Name | What it is | Why it's here | Pricing | API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Antigravity CLI](https://theagentsindex.com/antigravity-cli.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Claude Code](https://theagentsindex.com/claude-code.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [OpenAI Codex CLI](https://theagentsindex.com/codex-cli.md) | OpenAI's open-source (Apache-2.0) terminal coding agent, bundled into ChatGPT plans from Free through Pro — Business seats are grandfathered-only. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Goose](https://theagentsindex.com/goose.md) | Open source AI coding agent with a desktop app, CLI, and 70+ MCP extensions across 15+ LLM providers, backed by the Linux Foundation | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Muse Code](https://theagentsindex.com/muse-code.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [OpenCode](https://theagentsindex.com/opencode.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Cline](https://theagentsindex.com/cline.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Cursor](https://theagentsindex.com/cursor.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [GitHub Copilot](https://theagentsindex.com/github-copilot.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Junie](https://theagentsindex.com/junie.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Kilo Code](https://theagentsindex.com/kilo-code.md) | Open source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and Cloud with 500+ models and no markup | Open-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. | — | Yes |
| [Augment Code](https://theagentsindex.com/augment-code.md) | AI agent platform that automates code review, ticket-to-PR delivery, security remediation, and incident response for dev teams. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Devin](https://theagentsindex.com/devin.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Factory](https://theagentsindex.com/factory-ai.md) | 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. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [OpenHands](https://theagentsindex.com/openhands.md) | Open source platform for cloud coding agents. Free local OSS, free Individual Cloud tier, self-hosted Enterprise with SSO and RBAC. | 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. | — | Yes |
| [Replit Agent](https://theagentsindex.com/replit-agent.md) | AI agent that builds, deploys and fixes full-stack apps from a chat prompt inside Replit's browser IDE. | 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. | — | No |

## How this list is built

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.