| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 73 | 71 |
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| Confidence | high | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 2 of 16 | No. 5 of 16 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 97 | 92 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 68 | 55 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 46 | 67 |
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| Community posts sampled | 17 | 15 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 22 | Crowd warmer by 12 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | 148k | 127k |
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| npm weekly downloads | 12M | 19M |
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| PyPI monthly downloads | n/e | n/e |
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| VS Code installs | 26M | 15M |
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| Reported users | n/e | 5M |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 75 | 35 |
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| Benchmarks (shown, not scored) |
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| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | No. 31 of 43 · 57.98%
Claude Code + Claude Opus 4.6 | No. 4 of 43 · 82.25%
Codex CLI + GPT-5.5 |
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| SWE-bench | not listed | not listed |
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| Independent reviews | 8 | 8 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | B | B |
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| Permission model | C | A |
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| Data access scope | A | A |
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| Data storage | B | B |
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| Data retention & training | C | C |
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| Incident history | C | C |
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| Compliance | A | A |
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| Transparency | B | A |
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| Price |
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| Price | From $20 | Free, paid from $8 |
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| Plans | - Free: $0 (see notes)
- Pro: $20 / monthly
- Max 5x: $100 / monthly
- Max 20x: Custom
- Team Standard seat: $25 / monthly
- Team Premium seat: $125 / monthly
- Enterprise / API: Custom
| - Free: Free
- Go: $8 / monthly
- Plus: $20 / monthly
- Pro: $100 / monthly
- Business: $20 / monthly
- Enterprise & Edu: Custom
- API key: Custom
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| Product |
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| Category | Coding agents | Coding agents |
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| Maker | Anthropic | OpenAI |
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| Licence | proprietary | Apache-2.0 |
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| Use it via | CLI, IDE extension, Desktop app, Web app, Mobile app, API | CLI, Desktop app, IDE extension, Web app, API |
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| Runs on | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, linux, windows, web |
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| Models it drives | Claude | GPT |
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| Key features | - Terminal CLI plus VS Code and JetBrains extensions, desktop, web and mobile surfaces
- Permission modes: Manual, Accept Edits, auto mode (classifier-reviewed) and others
- Opt-in OS-level Bash sandbox (Seatbelt on macOS; Linux and WSL2 supported; native Windows not)
- Cloud sessions in isolated Anthropic-managed VMs
- Subagents, hooks, skills, plugins and MCP server support
- Claude Agent SDK for building custom agents on the same harness
| - Open-source Rust CLI (Apache-2.0) installable via npm, Homebrew or standalone installers
- Desktop app with in-app diff review and inline comments
- IDE extension for VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf
- OS-level sandbox on by default locally, with configurable approval policy and network off by default
- Optional auto-review mode that routes approval requests through a reviewer agent
- Cloud tasks that run in OpenAI-hosted environments
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| Verdicts |
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| Praised for | - Widely treated by practitioners as a reference coding agent and daily driver (Simon Willison; HN comments)
- Deep configurability through CLAUDE.md, skills and hooks rewards investment (Composio 100+ hour comparison)
- Explains its own changes well enough to support review workflows (Every / Kieran Klaassen)
| - Generous usage within ChatGPT subscriptions compared with rivals, per many community comments (HN)
- Strong Terminal-Bench 2.0 result: rank 4 of 43 harnesses
- Safe-by-default local sandbox and approval model (docs)
- Delegation and review workflow in the app praised by reviewers (Every; Composio)
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| Criticised for | - Frequent complaints about usage limits and token burn on subscription plans (HN, r/ClaudeCode)
- Long record of security advisories in the CLI (about 30 GHSA/CVE entries in 24 months) plus a March 2026 source-map leak
- Auto mode default relies on a classifier that has been bypassed in published research (Johann Rehberger via Simon Willison)
- Terminal UI performance complaints such as freezing and memory use (Douglas Mendes; HN)
| - Usage-limit and rate-limit changes cause sharp complaints (GitHub issue #28879 with 364 upvotes)
- Reported bugs with serious side effects, e.g. $HOME deletion in full-access mode (Simon Willison, July 2026) and excessive SSD writes from logs
- Weak front-end/UI output reported by some users (r/codex)
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 4 | 3 |
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