Use case
Terminal coding agents
These tools assume you are comfortable in a shell and a git repo. They are a different job from a prompt-to-app website.
Scored
Sorted by the published overall score. A tie breaks A to Z. Sponsorship, affiliates, and fast-track fees are not inputs.
No tested scores in this list yet. The first bench has not been published, so nothing here has a number.
Not yet scored
Alphabetical. This is the testing queue, not a ranking.
- AiderPending testOpen-source pair programmer in the terminalVibe Coding · Open source
- Claude CodePending testAnthropic's coding agent for the terminal and editorVibe Coding · Usage-based
- ClinePending testOpen-source coding agent for VS CodeVibe Coding · Open source
- CodexPending testOpenAI's coding agent for a repositoryVibe Coding · Usage-based
- DevinPending testAutonomous software engineer that opens pull requestsVibe Coding · Freemium