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What are AI Coding Agents?

AI coding agents are software tools powered by artificial intelligence designed to assist or fully automate the process of writing, reviewing, and optimizing code. These tools can generate code snippets, suggest improvements, debug errors, and even refactor entire codebases based on user input or project requirements. By leveraging machine learning and natural language processing, AI coding agents can understand and interpret programming languages, offering context-aware code suggestions that speed up development and reduce errors. They often integrate with popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) or version control systems, making them a seamless part of the developer's workflow. AI coding agents are especially useful in boosting productivity, assisting with repetitive tasks, and providing coding solutions for developers at all skill levels. Compare and read user reviews of the best AI Coding Agents currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    GPT-4.1

    GPT-4.1

    OpenAI

    GPT-4.1 is an advanced AI model from OpenAI, designed to enhance performance across key tasks such as coding, instruction following, and long-context comprehension. With a large context window of up to 1 million tokens, GPT-4.1 can process and understand extensive datasets, making it ideal for tasks like software development, document analysis, and AI agent workflows. Available through the API, GPT-4.1 offers significant improvements over previous models, excelling at real-world applications where efficiency and accuracy are crucial.
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    Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input)
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    Grok Code Fast 1
    Grok Code Fast 1 is a high-speed, economical reasoning model designed specifically for agentic coding workflows. Unlike traditional models that can feel slow in tool-based loops, it delivers near-instant responses, excelling in everyday software development tasks. Built from scratch with a programming-rich corpus and refined on real-world pull requests, it supports languages like TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, and Go. Developers can use it for everything from zero-to-one project building to precise bug fixes and codebase Q&A. With optimized inference and caching techniques, it achieves impressive responsiveness and a 90%+ cache hit rate when integrated with partners like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Cline. Offered at just $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, Grok Code Fast 1 strikes a strong balance between speed, performance, and affordability.
    Starting Price: $0.20 per million input tokens
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    GPT‑5-Codex
    OpenAI is launching GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 further optimized for agentic coding within Codex, focusing on real-world software engineering tasks (building full projects from scratch, adding features & tests, debugging, large-scale refactors, and code reviews). Codex now moves faster, is more reliable, and works better in real-time across your development environments, whether in terminal/CLI, IDE extension, via the web, in GitHub, or even on mobile. GPT-5-Codex is the default model for cloud tasks and code review; developers can also opt to use it locally via Codex CLI or the IDE extension. It dynamically adjusts how much “reasoning time” it spends depending on task complexity; small, well-defined tasks are fast and snappy; more complex ones (refactors, large feature work) get more sustained effort. Code review is stronger; it catches critical bugs before shipping.
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