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Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, and connects MCP, skills, and hooks.

#Claude

15900000DR: 95AS: 94

Aider

Development Tools

Open-source terminal pair programmer. Apache-2.0 and BYOK. You pay the model API, not an Aider seat.

#Open Source

300000DR: 70AS: 75

Goose

Development Tools

Local Apache-2.0 agent from Block / AAIF. Software $0; you pay the LLM.

#Open Source

200000DR: 65AS: 60

Cline

Development Tools

Open-source VS Code/CLI/SDK coding agent. Enterprise custom. Not a Claude 3.5 Sonnet wrapper.

#Coding Agent

1567DR: 165AS: 162