Hands-on reviews of AI coding tools, with the marketing fluff stripped out.

Side-by-side comparisons, dated pricing, and opinionated picks for AI coding agents, IDE assistants, and terminal tools. Every tool is tested before it ships here.

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Editor's picks

Claude Code

$20

Anthropic's terminal-first AI coding agent — best-in-class for long autonomous tasks and tool use.

Agent Multi-file

Cursor

Free + $20

VS Code fork with the best Tab completion in the business and a competent Composer agent.

Agent Multi-file

GitHub Copilot

Free + $10

The original AI coding assistant — broad IDE support, predictable pricing, and the deepest GitHub integration.

Agent Multi-file

By category

Terminal AI coding tools

Command-line AI coding tools — work over SSH, scriptable, no editor lock-in.

2 tools

AI coding agents

Tools that take a goal and iterate autonomously across multiple files, running commands and editing as they go.

5 tools

AI coding assistants

IDE-integrated assistants that pair with you while you code — chat, inline edits, and contextual suggestions.

3 tools

AI code completion

Inline tab-style code completion — the original AI coding category, still the most-used feature day to day.

3 tools