| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 73 | 72 |
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| Confidence | high | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 2 of 16 | No. 4 of 16 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 97 | 100 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 68 | 65 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 46 | 43 |
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| Community posts sampled | 17 | 21 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 22 | Crowd cooler by 22 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | 148k | n/e |
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| npm weekly downloads | 12M | n/e |
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| PyPI monthly downloads | n/e | n/e |
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| VS Code installs | 26M | 78M |
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| Reported users | n/e | 50M |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 75 | 100 |
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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 | not listed |
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| SWE-bench | not listed | not listed |
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| Independent reviews | 8 | 7 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | B | B |
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| Permission model | C | B |
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| Data access scope | A | A |
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| Data storage | B | n/e |
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| Data retention & training | C | C |
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| Incident history | C | n/e |
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| Compliance | A | A |
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| Transparency | B | B |
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| Price |
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| Price | From $20 | Free, paid from $10 |
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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
- Pro: $10 / monthly
- Pro+: $39 / monthly
- Max: $100 / monthly
- Business: $19 / monthly per user
- Enterprise: $39 / monthly per user
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| Product |
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| Category | Coding agents | Coding agents |
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| Maker | Anthropic | GitHub (Microsoft) |
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| Licence | proprietary | proprietary |
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| Use it via | CLI, IDE extension, Desktop app, Web app, Mobile app, API | IDE extension, CLI, Desktop app, Web app, Mobile app, Chat apps, API |
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| Runs on | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, windows, linux, web |
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| Models it drives | Claude | GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Kimi (open-weight), automatic model routing |
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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
| - Agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio and JetBrains with an Agents window and local Dev Container execution
- Copilot cloud agent: assign an issue, agent works in an ephemeral GitHub Actions environment and opens one pull request per task
- Copilot CLI terminal agent (npm @github/copilot) with experimental semantic model routing
- Copilot code review and Autofix on pull requests
- Copilot app with Jira, Sentry, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations
- Assisted approvals and local sandboxing for agent sessions (public preview, Sept 2026)
- Third-party coding agents (Claude, OpenAI) available on Pro+ and above
- Token-based GitHub AI Credits billing since June 2026
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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)
| - Broad model choice under one enterprise contract, including open-weight models, is cited as its enterprise advantage (HN, July 2026).
- Reach and distribution: 50 million users and deep GitHub integration (Microsoft FY26 Q4 call; GitHub discussion users citing GHE integration).
- Independent reviewers find it pays off for high-volume, well-tested code in mainstream languages (Netguru, Sept 2026).
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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)
| - June 2026 move to usage-based AI Credits was widely read as a large effective price increase; many users said they would cancel (HN and GitHub Community, April 2026).
- Trust damage from Copilot inserting promotional 'tips' into pull requests in March 2026, later withdrawn.
- Individual-plan interaction data used for model training by default since 24 April 2026 unless users opt out.
- Real-world suggestion acceptance reported well below GitHub's published figures (Netguru, Sept 2026).
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 4 | 5 |
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