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Which Agent Should I Use?

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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 agents

AI 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/mo

Claude Code

Coding agents

Terminal 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 agents

Code completions, chat and a cloud agent that opens pull requests on GitHub.

Free $0; Pro $10/mo; Pro+ $39/mo; Max $100/mo

Windsurf

Coding agents

AI code editor with the Cascade agent.

Free $0; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/user

Devin

Coding agents

Autonomous software engineer that works through tickets in its own environment.

See site

Replit Agent

Coding agents

Builds and deploys full apps from a prompt inside Replit.

Core $20/mo ($18/mo annual); Pro $100/mo ($90/mo annual)

Lovable

Coding agents

Prompt-to-web-app builder for full-stack apps.

See site

Bolt

Coding agents

In-browser prompt-to-app builder from StackBlitz.

Free $0; Pro $25/mo; Teams $30/member/mo

v0

Coding agents

Vercel's agent for generating React/Next.js UI and apps.

Free $0/mo; Plus $30/user/mo; Business $100/user/mo

Aider

Coding agents

Open-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 agents

Open-source coding agent for VS Code that plans and acts with your own API key.

See site

OpenHands

Coding agents

Open-source platform for autonomous coding agents (formerly OpenDevin).

See site

OpenAI Codex

Coding agents

OpenAI's coding agent in the CLI, IDE and cloud.

Free $0; Go $8/mo; Plus $20/mo; Pro from $100/mo; Business $20/user/mo

Gemini CLI

Coding agents

Open-source terminal agent from Google powered by Gemini.

Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)

Browser Use

Browser agents

Open-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 agents

Headless browser infrastructure for AI agents.

Free; Developer $20/mo; Startup $99/mo; Custom

Stagehand

Browser agents

Open-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 agents

General-purpose autonomous agent that browses, researches and builds deliverables.

See site

ElevenLabs Agents

Voice agents

Voice AI platform with realistic TTS and conversational voice agents.

Free; Starter $6/mo; Creator $22/mo; Pro $99/mo; Scale $299/mo; Business $990/mo

Vapi

Voice agents

Developer platform for building phone and web voice agents.

Pay-as-you-go from $0.05/min plus provider costs; $5 free credits to start

Retell AI

Voice agents

Platform for building and deploying AI phone call agents.

Usage-based per minute (voice engine, LLM and telephony billed separately)

Bland AI

Voice agents

Enterprise 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 rate

LiveKit Agents

Voice agents

Open-source framework and cloud for realtime voice and video AI agents.

Open-source framework free; LiveKit Cloud usage billed per minute

Pipecat

Voice agents

Open-source Python framework for voice and multimodal conversational agents, maintained by Daily.

Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)

Perplexity

Research agents

AI answer engine with cited sources and deep research mode.

See site

Elicit

Research agents

AI research assistant for finding and extracting data from academic papers.

Free tier; Pro $49/user/mo billed annually; higher tiers available

GPT Researcher

Research agents

Open-source autonomous agent that writes cited research reports.

Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)

LangGraph

Agent frameworks

Framework from LangChain for building stateful, controllable agent graphs.

Library free and open source; LangSmith Developer $0/seat, Plus $39/seat/mo

CrewAI

Agent frameworks

Python framework for orchestrating role-playing multi-agent crews.

See site

AutoGen

Agent frameworks

Microsoft's open-source framework for multi-agent conversations.

Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)

OpenAI Agents SDK

Agent frameworks

Lightweight 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 frameworks

Type-safe Python agent framework from the Pydantic team.

Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs)

n8n

Agent frameworks

Workflow automation platform with AI agent nodes; self-hostable.

See site

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