Which Agent Should I Use? summary
One line per agent. Plain text version: /llms.txt.
Coding agents
- Cursor: AI code editor with an agent that edits across files, plus cloud agents. Pricing: Free $0; Plus $8/mo; Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams $30+/user/mo (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: coding-in-an-editor, refactoring, cloud-agents.
- Claude Code: Terminal coding agent from Anthropic that reads, edits and runs code in your repo. Pricing: Included with Claude Pro ($20/mo monthly, $17/mo annual) and Max (from $100/mo) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: terminal-coding, refactoring, large-codebases.
- GitHub Copilot: Code completions, chat and a cloud agent that opens pull requests on GitHub. Pricing: Free $0; Pro $10/mo; Pro+ $39/mo; Max $100/mo (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: coding-in-an-editor, pull-request-automation, code-review.
- Windsurf: AI code editor with the Cascade agent. Pricing: Free $0; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/user (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: coding-in-an-editor, refactoring.
- Devin: Autonomous software engineer that works through tickets in its own environment. Pricing: See site (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: cloud-agents, pull-request-automation.
- Replit Agent: Builds and deploys full apps from a prompt inside Replit. Pricing: Core $20/mo ($18/mo annual); Pro $100/mo ($90/mo annual) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: build-an-app-from-a-prompt, prototyping.
- Lovable: Prompt-to-web-app builder for full-stack apps. Pricing: See site (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: build-an-app-from-a-prompt, prototyping.
- Bolt: In-browser prompt-to-app builder from StackBlitz. Pricing: Free $0; Pro $25/mo; Teams $30/member/mo (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: build-an-app-from-a-prompt, prototyping.
- v0: Vercel's agent for generating React/Next.js UI and apps. Pricing: Free $0/mo; Plus $30/user/mo; Business $100/user/mo (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: build-an-app-from-a-prompt, ui-design.
- Aider: Open-source AI pair programmer in the terminal that commits changes to git. Pricing: Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: terminal-coding, open-source.
- Cline: Open-source coding agent for VS Code that plans and acts with your own API key. Pricing: See site (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: coding-in-an-editor, open-source.
- OpenHands: Open-source platform for autonomous coding agents (formerly OpenDevin). Pricing: See site (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: cloud-agents, open-source.
- OpenAI Codex: OpenAI's coding agent in the CLI, IDE and cloud. Pricing: Free $0; Go $8/mo; Plus $20/mo; Pro from $100/mo; Business $20/user/mo (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: terminal-coding, cloud-agents, pull-request-automation.
- Gemini CLI: Open-source terminal agent from Google powered by Gemini. Pricing: Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: terminal-coding, open-source.
Browser agents
- Browser Use: Open-source library and cloud for letting AI agents control a web browser. Pricing: 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) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: web-automation, scraping, open-source.
- Browserbase: Headless browser infrastructure for AI agents. Pricing: Free; Developer $20/mo; Startup $99/mo; Custom (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: web-automation, scraping.
- Stagehand: Open-source SDK from Browserbase for natural-language browser actions (act, extract, observe). Pricing: Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: web-automation, scraping, open-source.
- Manus: General-purpose autonomous agent that browses, researches and builds deliverables. Pricing: See site (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: research-reports, web-automation.
Voice agents
- ElevenLabs Agents: Voice AI platform with realistic TTS and conversational voice agents. Pricing: Free; Starter $6/mo; Creator $22/mo; Pro $99/mo; Scale $299/mo; Business $990/mo (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: voice-agents, text-to-speech, phone-agents.
- Vapi: Developer platform for building phone and web voice agents. Pricing: Pay-as-you-go from $0.05/min plus provider costs; $5 free credits to start (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: phone-agents, voice-agents.
- Retell AI: Platform for building and deploying AI phone call agents. Pricing: Usage-based per minute (voice engine, LLM and telephony billed separately) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: phone-agents, customer-support.
- Bland AI: Enterprise AI phone calling platform with an API for outbound and inbound calls. Pricing: Starts at $0.14/min with no platform fee; higher tiers lower the per-minute rate (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: phone-agents, customer-support.
- LiveKit Agents: Open-source framework and cloud for realtime voice and video AI agents. Pricing: Open-source framework free; LiveKit Cloud usage billed per minute (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: voice-agents, realtime-video, open-source.
- Pipecat: Open-source Python framework for voice and multimodal conversational agents, maintained by Daily. Pricing: Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: voice-agents, open-source.
Research agents
- Perplexity: AI answer engine with cited sources and deep research mode. Pricing: See site (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: research-reports, web-search.
- Elicit: AI research assistant for finding and extracting data from academic papers. Pricing: Free tier; Pro $49/user/mo billed annually; higher tiers available (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: academic-research, literature-review.
- GPT Researcher: Open-source autonomous agent that writes cited research reports. Pricing: Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: research-reports, open-source.
Agent frameworks
- LangGraph: Framework from LangChain for building stateful, controllable agent graphs. Pricing: Library free and open source; LangSmith Developer $0/seat, Plus $39/seat/mo (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: build-your-own-agent, multi-agent, open-source.
- CrewAI: Python framework for orchestrating role-playing multi-agent crews. Pricing: See site (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: multi-agent, build-your-own-agent, open-source.
- AutoGen: Microsoft's open-source framework for multi-agent conversations. Pricing: Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: multi-agent, build-your-own-agent, open-source.
- OpenAI Agents SDK: Lightweight Python framework from OpenAI for multi-agent workflows with handoffs and guardrails. Pricing: Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: build-your-own-agent, multi-agent, open-source.
- Pydantic AI: Type-safe Python agent framework from the Pydantic team. Pricing: Free and open source (you pay your own LLM API costs) (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: build-your-own-agent, open-source.
- n8n: Workflow automation platform with AI agent nodes; self-hostable. Pricing: See site (checked 2026-10-13). Best for: workflow-automation, build-your-own-agent.