| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 73 | 73 |
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| Confidence | high | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 2 of 16 | No. 3 of 16 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 97 | 93 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 68 | 73 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 46 | 46 |
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| Community posts sampled | 17 | 29 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 22 | Crowd cooler by 27 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | 148k | 91k |
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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 | n/e |
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| Reported users | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 75 | 46 |
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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 | 8 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | B | A |
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| Permission model | C | A |
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| Data access scope | A | A |
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| Data storage | B | A |
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| Data retention & training | C | A |
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| Incident history | C | C |
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| Compliance | A | B |
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| Transparency | B | A |
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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
| - Personal: Free
- Pro: $10 / monthly
- Business: $30 / monthly
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| Product |
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| Category | Coding agents | Coding agents |
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| Maker | Anthropic | Zed Industries |
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| Licence | proprietary | GPL-3.0-or-later |
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| Use it via | CLI, IDE extension, Desktop app, Web app, Mobile app, API | Desktop app |
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| Runs on | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, linux, windows |
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| Models it drives | Claude | Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Amazon Bedrock, GitHub Copilot models, any model via OpenRouter / Vercel gateway, local via Ollama / LM Studio, external ACP agents (Claude Agent, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Copilot, Cursor, Pi, Poolside) |
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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 Panel with built-in agent: file edits, terminal, fetch, MCP tools
- Parallel agent threads in a Threads Sidebar, optional per-thread Git worktree isolation
- Hosts external agents over the Agent Client Protocol, with an ACP Registry for installing them
- Per-tool permission rules (allow / confirm / deny) with pattern matching on commands and paths
- OS-level sandbox for terminal and fetch tools on by default since v1.14 (Seatbelt on macOS, Bubblewrap on Linux, WSL on Windows)
- Checkpoints to restore code, multibuffer review of agent edits, follow-the-agent view
- Agent profiles to choose which built-in and MCP tools are available
- Edit predictions (inline next-edit completions) alongside the agent
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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)
| - Can run and switch between several agents (built-in and ACP external agents) in one editor window
- Parallel agent threads with worktree isolation are praised by users moving from single-thread agent workflows
- Fast, lightweight editor that users keep even when they run agents elsewhere
- Free bring-your-own-key use and external agents on the $0 plan
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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)
| - Agent UI and parallel-agent layout described as confusing by several users after the April 2026 changes
- Built-in agent seen by some reviewers and users as less capable or less turnkey than Cursor, Claude Code or OpenCode
- ACP-hosted external agents reported as buggy or limited (buffer not refreshing, lost LSP access, never-ending runs)
- Diff/code-review tooling for reviewing agent output considered insufficient by some users
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 4 | 10 |
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