March 2026 Landscape Report

AI Coding Agents

13 agents compared across features, architecture, benchmarks & developer experience. Click any card to expand full details.

$7–13B
Market Size
80.9%
Top SWE-bench
$29.3B
Cursor Valuation
95%
Devs Using AI
Claude CodeCLI
Anthropic
Terminal-native powerhouse with Agent Teams & MCP ecosystem
SWE-bench
80.8%
$20/mo (Pro)
OpenAI CodexCLI + AppCLI (Apache 2.0)
OpenAI
Cloud-first async delegation with open-source CLI
SWE-bench
74%
$20/mo (Plus)
CursorAI-first IDE
Anysphere
VS Code fork with Background Agents & $29.3B valuation
SWE-bench
N/A
$20/mo (Pro)
WindsurfAI-first IDE
Cognition AI
950 tok/s via Cerebras with real-time action awareness
SWE-bench
N/A
$20/mo (Pro)
GitHub CopilotIDE Plugin + CLICopilot Chat OSS
Microsoft/GitHub
15M+ users, widest IDE support, model flexibility
SWE-bench
56%
$10/mo (Pro)
Amazon QIDE Plugin + CLI
AWS
AWS-native with unmatched code transformation capabilities
SWE-bench
66%
$19/user/mo
Gemini Code AssistIDE Plugin + CLICLI only
Google
Largest free tier with 1M context and Jules async agent
SWE-bench
78%
$0 (free tier)
DevinAutonomous Agent
Cognition Labs
Full SDLC autonomy — plans, codes, tests, deploys
SWE-bench
13.86%
$20/mo + ACUs
SWE-AgentResearch AgentYes (MIT)
Princeton/Stanford
Radical simplicity — >74% SWE-bench in ~100 lines of Python
SWE-bench
74%
Free
AiderCLIYes (Apache 2.0)
Paul Gauthier
Pioneered repo map with tree-sitter + PageRank — no RAG needed
SWE-bench
26.3%
Free
OpenCodeCLI + TUI + IDEYes (MIT)
Community (anomalyco)
128K GitHub stars — fastest-growing open-source coding agent
SWE-bench
N/A
Free
ClineVS Code ExtensionYes (Apache 2.0)
Cline Bot
5M+ VS Code installs with human-in-the-loop approval
SWE-bench
N/A
Free
Roo CodeVS Code ExtensionYes (Apache 2.0)
Roo Code (fork of Cline)
Custom Modes (Architect, Debug, Orchestrator) + enterprise compliance
SWE-bench
N/A
Free
AI CODING AGENTS LANDSCAPE · MARCH 2026 · DATA FROM 100+ SOURCES