Terminal agents: AI tools compared (November 2026)
7tools in this category
4countries with local strength
0can host data in the EU
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Results
From $17 per month🇺🇸
Agentic coding tool from Anthropic for terminal, IDE, desktop and browser that reads and edits code, runs commands and opens pull requests.
From $8.33 per user/month🇳🇱
Coding agent from JetBrains for the IDE, terminal, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, with bring-your-own-key for more than ten models.
Free🇺🇸
Open source AI agent from Google for the terminal with Gemini models, Google Search grounding, file access, shell commands and MCP.
Free🇫🇷
Open source terminal coding agent from Mistral AI, with Mistral models, other compatible providers or local models offline.
Free🇨🇳
Open source coding agent from China's Qwen team for terminal, editor, desktop and chat, with Qwen, third-party or local models.
FreeAvailable internationally Open source coding agent as a VS Code extension, CLI and SDK, where you pay only for model usage.
FreeAvailable internationally Open source coding agent from OpenAI for the terminal, usable with a ChatGPT plan or API key, plus IDE extension and cloud.