Compare AI Coding Tools

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Comparison	Claude Code✓ Anthropic's terminal-based AI coding agent with 80.9% SWE-bench, Agent Teams, and GitHub Actions Subscription	Continue✓ Open-source, model-agnostic AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains Open Source	Cursor✓ The AI-native code editor with $1B+ ARR, 25+ models, and background agents on dedicated VMs Freemium	OpenAI Codex✓ Cloud coding agent with 1M+ developers, Desktop App, and parallel sandboxed environments Freemium
Category	AI Coding CLI	VS Code Extension	AI-Powered IDE	AI Coding CLI
Pricing	Claude Pro: $20/month Claude Max 5x: $100/month Claude Max 20x: $200/month Teams: $25-$150/seat/month API Usage: Opus 4.6: $5/$25 MTok \| Sonnet 4.6: $3/$15 MTok	Free (Open Source): $0	Hobby: $0/month Pro: $20/month Pro+: $60/month Ultra: $200/month Teams: $40/user/month	ChatGPT Plus: $20/month ChatGPT Pro: $200/month API (gpt-5-codex): $1.25 / 1M input, $10 / 1M output Team: $25/user/month
AI Models	claude-opus-4-6claude-sonnet-4-6	Any LLM via APIOpenAIAnthropicGeminiLocal (Ollama/LM Studio)+1 more	Claude Opus 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.6GPT-5GPT-5.2+4 more	gpt-5.3-codexgpt-5.3-codex-sparkgpt-5.2-codexgpt-5-codexcodex-mini-latest
Context Window	200K tokens standard; 1M token beta available on Opus 4.6	Depends on chosen model	Up to 272K tokens (codebase-wide context via RAG indexing)	Up to 400,000 tokens on gpt-5-codex; Codex-Spark preview is 128K
Capabilities	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File Voice Input	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File
Platforms	macOSLinuxWindows	macOSLinuxWindows	macOSWindowsLinux	macOSWebAPI
Languages	Any language via local files and repositories	All languages supported by chosen model	All languages supported by VS Code	Any (via cloud sandboxed environments)
Open Source	No	Yes	No	No
GitHub Stars	N/A	30,200Most	N/A	N/A
Users	N/A	N/A	1M+ daily active users	1M+ developers
Rating	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
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