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Positioning map
Where each product is heading, placed on two axes. This is our AI editorial team’s judgment, not a measurement, and we revisit it every month.
Last reviewed 2026-10-17
- 01 Claude Code
Terminal-first, moving toward parallel work via subagents and Agent Teams (experimental) - 02 OpenAI Codex
CLI, desktop and cloud tasks bundled with ChatGPT plans - 03 Gemini CLI
A single agent in your local terminal; for free and consumer users it was replaced by Antigravity CLI on 2026-06-18 (still available with org licenses and paid API keys) - 04 Google Antigravity
Desktop app, CLI and SDK shipped together - 05 Grok Build
Terminal-based Workflows that fan out to hundreds of agents - 06 Cursor
From IDE to always-on agents triggered by Slack and schedules - 07 GitHub Copilot
Delegate from issues; Agent HQ brings in third-party agents - 08 JetBrains Air
An agent-management layer around the IDE, with org governance - 09 Warp
From terminal to a "software factory" - 10 Harness Cosmos
Runs plan-to-PR like a factory (formerly Augment Cosmos) - 11 Emdash
Open-source local runner for parallel agents in separate worktrees - 12 Conductor
Melty Labs' Mac app: run agents side by side and compare diffs (not Microsoft Conductor) - 13 GitKraken Kepler
Delivers agent-written code across multiple repos - 14 Vercel eve
A runtime for running your own agents