Coding agents
AI agents that take a coding task, read your repository, edit files and run commands until the task is done.
Search AirStackWhy teams use it
- Hand off well-defined changes and review the result
- Run fixes, upgrades and tests from the terminal
- Work through a backlog of small tasks in parallel
- Choose or swap the model behind the agent
Who uses it: Software engineer, Staff engineer, Platform engineer, Open-source maintainer, Engineering manager. Watch for: Agents run commands on your machine and use model credits fast; set permissions and spend limits before you hand off work. AirStack’s guide to the category.
11 products
| Product | What it says it does | Starting at |
|---|---|---|
| Cline | Use it in your editor, your terminal, or embed it in your own products. | Not observed |
| Kilo Code | Open Source AI Coding Agent in IDE, CLI and Cloud | Not observed |
| OpenHands | OpenHands is an AI agent platform for software development that can execute real engineering work, not just suggest code. | Not observed |
| opencode | OpenCode is an open source agent that helps you write code in your terminal, IDE, or desktop. | Not observed |
| Claude Code | Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools. | Not observed |
| Goose | goose is a general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine. | Not observed |
| Qwen Code | Qwen’s agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal and helps you turn ideas into code faster than ever before. | Not observed |
| Aider | AI pair programming in your terminal | Not observed |
| Continue | helped us create a pioneering open-source coding agent | Not observed |
| Gemini CLI | Query and edit large codebases, generate apps from images or PDFs, and automate complex workflows—all from your terminal with Gemini 3. | Not observed |
| OpenAI Codex CLI | Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal | Not observed |
Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; hover one for its quote. “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
Open models for the job
- openai-community/gpt2 30,091,264 downloads in 30 days · mit
- Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B 22,322,522 downloads in 30 days · apache-2.0
- Qwen/Qwen3-14B 12,949,368 downloads in 30 days · apache-2.0