Compare editor-first AI coding environments by model access, open-source status, CLI support, agent workflows, and paid-plan entry points. This category covers full editor or IDE products, not standalone terminal agents or editor extensions.
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Start here if you want an integrated editor with repository-wide coding agents and optional remote tasks.
Paid plan from $20/month
Plan prices and separate model charges depend on provider terms.
Start here if you need an IDE for reviewing work across local and cloud coding agents.
Paid plan from $20/month
Plan prices and separate model charges depend on provider terms.
Start here if your development process benefits from requirements, design, tasks and automated hooks.
Paid plan from $20/month
Plan prices and separate model charges depend on provider terms.
Start here if you want an open-source editor with native AI tools and external agent integration.
Paid plan from $10/month
Plan prices and separate model charges depend on provider terms.
An integrated IDE is the place where you inspect and review code; a standalone coding agent can work in a terminal or connect to an editor. Compare both before choosing a paid plan.
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Includes indexed models and APIs directly assigned to the category or connected to its tools and agents by verified usage, integration, power, or availability relationships.
Claude Fable 5.1 is an Anthropic model for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work, with a one-million-token context window and up to 128K output tokens.
Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's current Opus model for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is an Anthropic model released in September 2026 with a one-million-token context window, text and image input, and text output.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is a Google model for long-horizon software engineering, agent workflows, and multimodal tasks, available through the Gemini API.
GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 model for complex professional work, with a 1.05-million-token context window and up to 128K output tokens.
GPT-5.6 Terra is an OpenAI model designed to balance capability and cost, with a 1.05-million-token context window and up to 128K output tokens.
GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship API model for complex reasoning, coding, computer use, research, and other tool-heavy professional workflows.
Grok 4.7 is SpaceXAI's current flagship model for coding and general agentic work, with a 500K-token context window and configurable reasoning.
Claude API is Anthropic's REST API for programmatic access to Claude models, including Messages, streaming, tool use, files, model listing, and related platform features.
DeepSeek API provides access to the current DeepSeek V4 models through OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.
Gemini API provides programmatic access to Google's Gemini and related generative models through standard, streaming, real-time, batch, embeddings, and media endpoints.
Mistral API provides programmatic access to Mistral models, chat completions, agents, tool use, structured outputs, embeddings, document workflows, and batch processing.
OpenAI API provides programmatic access to OpenAI models through the Responses API, Realtime API, batch processing, and other model and media endpoints.
OpenRouter API is an OpenAI-compatible model-routing API that exposes hundreds of models from many providers through a single endpoint and account.
xAI API provides programmatic access to Grok models through OpenAI-compatible REST endpoints and xAI's gRPC interface, with text, tool, media, file, and batch APIs.
Provider graph
Organizations linked to the category's tools, agents, models, or APIs through verified develops, provides, operates, or owns relationships.
Amazon Web Services is Amazon's cloud business and provides cloud, developer, and AI services including Amazon Q Developer.
Anthropic is an AI research and product company that develops Claude models, the Claude API, and products including Claude Code.
Anysphere develops Cursor, a software platform and code editor focused on coding workflows and coding agents.
Cognition develops the Devin product family for local, desktop, and cloud software-engineering workflows and acquired Windsurf in 2025.
DeepSeek develops language models, an API platform, and agent-oriented model tooling, including hosted DeepSeek V4 models and open-weight DeepSeek V3 and R1 research families.
Google develops internet, cloud, developer, and AI products, including the Gemini model and developer-tool product family.
Mistral AI develops language models and operates Studio, its developer platform for model APIs, agents, document processing, and related AI workloads.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops model, developer, and coding products including the Codex product family.
OpenRouter operates a model-routing platform and unified API for accessing models from multiple AI providers through one account and endpoint.
SpaceXAI develops the Grok model family and operates the xAI API. xAI joined SpaceX in February 2026.
Zed Industries develops Zed, an open-source code editor with collaboration and AI-assisted development features.
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Published comparisons are included when at least one compared entity is a direct member of this category or a model/API reached through its verified graph connections.
Claude Code is Anthropic's coding agent across terminal, IDE, web, and managed integrations. Cursor is a standalone code editor with local and cloud agent workflows plus CLI and web access.
Cursor is a standalone editor from Anysphere. GitHub Copilot runs across GitHub, supported IDEs, and the command line. Both include agent workflows.
DeepSeek API and OpenAI API both support the OpenAI Responses request style. DeepSeek additionally documents an Anthropic-compatible base URL, while OpenAI exposes a broader first-party set of realtime and media endpoints.
Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf, combines an IDE with a command center for local and cloud agents. Cursor is an AI code editor with integrated agent and cloud-agent workflows.
Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-6.1 Sol both target coding and agent workflows. Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts a broader set of native media inputs, while GPT-6.1 Sol has a larger documented maximum output.
Gemini API and OpenAI API both expose multimodal models, streaming, tool use, batch processing, and official SDKs. Their primary request primitives and authentication schemes differ.
GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are current general-purpose models with strong coding and agent-workflow support. Their standard API input/output prices are both USD 2 and USD 10 per million tokens.
GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 are high-capability models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Both support text and image input, reasoning, tool-based workflows, and long contexts.
Grok 4.7 and GPT-6.1 Sol are current multimodal models used for coding and agent workflows. Grok 4.7 has lower standard output-token pricing, while GPT-6.1 Sol has a larger documented context window.
Groq API and OpenRouter API both expose OpenAI-compatible model access. Groq runs a selected model catalog on its inference cloud, while OpenRouter routes requests across many model providers.
Kiro and Cursor both combine code editing with agent workflows. Kiro spans IDE, CLI, web, and mobile surfaces, while Cursor centers on its editor with local and cloud agent workflows.
Mistral Medium 3.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 both target coding and agentic work. Mistral Medium 3.5 is released as open weights, while Claude Sonnet 5.5 is served as a proprietary Anthropic model.
OpenAI API and Claude API both provide model access, streaming, tool use, and official SDKs. They differ in API surface, model catalog, authentication details, and supported media and realtime endpoints.
OpenRouter API is a multi-provider routing layer with an OpenAI-compatible interface, while OpenAI API is OpenAI's first-party platform for its own models and developer services.
xAI API and OpenAI API both expose Responses-style and OpenAI-compatible developer workflows, with different model catalogs, server-side tools, media endpoints, and transport options.
Zed is an open-source editor with native, external, and terminal-backed agent paths. Cursor is a proprietary editor centered on its own agent workflows and cloud agents.
No. An editor is the environment where you write and review code; an agent executes development tasks. An editor can include one or more agents, while terminal agents can run without their own editor.
Among the currently mapped members, Zed has an open-source editor client. Check its license and model-provider terms independently: an open-source editor does not imply free hosted model usage.
No. CLI refers to terminal access, while cloud-agent workflows run tasks in hosted or remote environments. Some products support both. Filters reflect reviewed product records rather than exhaustive capability guarantees.
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