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As of 19 October 2026| Product | What it says it is | Where it runs | How you pay | Source (read 19 October 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duscode | Your engineering team: Dus builds your software, checks every change, merges, deploys to your servers and watches production. You approve what matters. In private beta; merging, deploying and watching are in beta. | On your computer: a desktop app for Windows and Linux, a terminal app for macOS, Linux and WSL that you use in your browser, and a VS Code extension. | A Free plan, a plan for your own provider keys, and monthly plans with AI usage included, shown in pounds, plus top-ups. Prices exclude VAT. | Capabilities and Pricing on this site |
| Claude Code | “An agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools.” | The terminal, IDE extensions (VS Code and JetBrains), a desktop app and the web. | Most surfaces require a Claude subscription or an Anthropic Console account. The terminal CLI, VS Code and JetBrains also support third-party providers. | Claude Code docs: Overview |
| Cursor | “Your coding agent for building ambitious software.” | A desktop app and a command-line tool. Its home page also says it collaborates in Slack and reviews pull requests in GitHub. | A Free plan, paid individual plans billed monthly, a Teams plan priced per user per month, and custom Enterprise pricing. Prices shown exclude taxes. | Cursor home page and Cursor pricing |
| OpenHands | “The foundation for secure, transparent, model-agnostic coding agents”, “building the open standard for autonomous software development”. | Locally on your machine by default, in Docker, on VMs, or on OpenHands Cloud or OpenHands Enterprise infrastructure. | Open source under the MIT licence, free. OpenHands Cloud has a free individual plan, with your own model keys or its providers at cost. Enterprise has custom pricing. | OpenHands on GitHub and OpenHands pricing |
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