Cursor vs Copilot vs Windsurf
The three editors most teams trial: context quality, GitHub fit, pricing, and how much review each one creates.
Compare AI coding agents
Head-to-head guides, grouped by the part of your workflow you're deciding on. Each one covers what the tools are good at, what they really cost, and where they break.
New to this? Read how to pick an AI coding agent stack first. It explains the layers (editor, terminal, autonomous, models, protocols) and gives four stacks that work, so you know which comparison below you need.
Editors
Cursor vs Copilot
The narrower call when Windsurf is out and the question is GitHub-native workflow versus an AI-first editor.
Amazon Q vs JetBrains AI
For AWS-heavy and JetBrains-standard teams: governance, security controls, and rollout friction.
Continue.dev after the Cursor deal
What changed for teams that picked Continue to keep model choice and vendor independence inside VS Code.
CLI agents
Claude Code vs Codex CLI
Which terminal agent loses less state and review time once long sessions get messy.
OpenCode vs Codex CLI
A model-agnostic open-source agent against OpenAI's managed CLI: control versus defaults.
Aider, Continue, Cline, Hermes, and OpenHands
Whether a bring-your-own-key stack is really cheaper once someone has to run it.
Autonomous agents
Devin vs OpenHands
Cost per accepted change, plus the supervision and cleanup that autonomous runs still need.
Copilot Workspace vs Cursor background agents
Where delegated work should live: GitHub planning flows or parallel runs in the editor.
Across the stack
Real coding-agent costs
Copilot premium requests, Claude and Codex API spend, and reviewer time as one budget.
Coding agents on large codebases
How Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Aider, and Cline hold up once a repo spans many packages.
Open-source coding models
Whether GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.6, or Mistral-class models change the economics of your stack.
MCP vs A2A
What belongs in model-to-tool context (MCP) and what belongs in agent-to-agent handoffs (A2A).
LangGraph vs CrewAI vs AutoGen
Which orchestration framework, if any, earns its extra moving parts.
Looking for one tool rather than a matchup? The tools directory has a page for each.