Which Agent Should I Use?
Agent Showdown
33 AI agents and agent tools, with what each is good at, pricing checked against the official site, and a real setup example.
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Coding agentsAI code editor with an agent that edits across files, plus cloud agents.
Free $0; Plus $8/mo; Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams $30+/user/moClaude Code
Coding agentsTerminal coding agent from Anthropic that reads, edits and runs code in your repo.
Included with Claude Pro ($20/mo monthly, $17/mo annual) and Max (from $100/mo)GitHub Copilot
Coding agentsCode completions, chat and a cloud agent that opens pull requests on GitHub.
Free $0; Pro $10/mo; Pro+ $39/mo; Max $100/moWindsurf
Coding agentsAI code editor with the Cascade agent.
Free $0; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/userDevin
Coding agentsAutonomous software engineer that works through tickets in its own environment.
See siteReplit Agent
Coding agentsBuilds and deploys full apps from a prompt inside Replit.
Core $20/mo ($18/mo annual); Pro $100/mo ($90/mo annual)Bolt
Coding agentsIn-browser prompt-to-app builder from StackBlitz.
Free $0; Pro $25/mo; Teams $30/member/mov0
Coding agentsVercel's agent for generating React/Next.js UI and apps.
Free $0/mo; Plus $30/user/mo; Business $100/user/moAider
Coding agentsOpen-source AI pair programmer in the terminal that commits changes to git.
Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)Cline
Coding agentsOpen-source coding agent for VS Code that plans and acts with your own API key.
See siteOpenHands
Coding agentsOpen-source platform for autonomous coding agents (formerly OpenDevin).
See siteOpenAI Codex
Coding agentsOpenAI's coding agent in the CLI, IDE and cloud.
Free $0; Go $8/mo; Plus $20/mo; Pro from $100/mo; Business $20/user/moGemini CLI
Coding agentsOpen-source terminal agent from Google powered by Gemini.
Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)Browser Use
Browser agentsOpen-source library and cloud for letting AI agents control a web browser.
Open-source library free; Cloud is pay-as-you-go per model token (e.g. BU 2.0 $0.60 input / $3.50 output per 1M tokens)Browserbase
Browser agentsHeadless browser infrastructure for AI agents.
Free; Developer $20/mo; Startup $99/mo; CustomStagehand
Browser agentsOpen-source SDK from Browserbase for natural-language browser actions (act, extract, observe).
Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)Manus
Browser agentsGeneral-purpose autonomous agent that browses, researches and builds deliverables.
See siteElevenLabs Agents
Voice agentsVoice AI platform with realistic TTS and conversational voice agents.
Free; Starter $6/mo; Creator $22/mo; Pro $99/mo; Scale $299/mo; Business $990/moVapi
Voice agentsDeveloper platform for building phone and web voice agents.
Pay-as-you-go from $0.05/min plus provider costs; $5 free credits to startRetell AI
Voice agentsPlatform for building and deploying AI phone call agents.
Usage-based per minute (voice engine, LLM and telephony billed separately)Bland AI
Voice agentsEnterprise AI phone calling platform with an API for outbound and inbound calls.
Starts at $0.14/min with no platform fee; higher tiers lower the per-minute rateLiveKit Agents
Voice agentsOpen-source framework and cloud for realtime voice and video AI agents.
Open-source framework free; LiveKit Cloud usage billed per minutePipecat
Voice agentsOpen-source Python framework for voice and multimodal conversational agents, maintained by Daily.
Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)Elicit
Research agentsAI research assistant for finding and extracting data from academic papers.
Free tier; Pro $49/user/mo billed annually; higher tiers availableGPT Researcher
Research agentsOpen-source autonomous agent that writes cited research reports.
Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)LangGraph
Agent frameworksFramework from LangChain for building stateful, controllable agent graphs.
Library free and open source; LangSmith Developer $0/seat, Plus $39/seat/moAutoGen
Agent frameworksMicrosoft's open-source framework for multi-agent conversations.
Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)OpenAI Agents SDK
Agent frameworksLightweight Python framework from OpenAI for multi-agent workflows with handoffs and guardrails.
Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)Pydantic AI
Agent frameworksType-safe Python agent framework from the Pydantic team.
Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)