Coding Agents for Development
An in-depth comparison of the most popular coding agent tools for software development — capabilities, pricing, integrations, and trade-offs.
Input / Cached Input To Output
To compare real pricing per 1M of generated code tokens, we need to know how many input and cached-input are consumed per output token on average. This depends a lot on your codebase, prompts, targets and even agent tool. We give preset's based on the lifetime values from DevForth's projects, but you can enter your own stats into inputs by selected "Custom", and pasting totals of tokens for your project/lifetime/etc
Models used by coding agents
Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle
1M
DF Coding Score?
84.2Latency20.59 s?
DF Coding price$47.5/1M out?
GPT-5.5Open AI
922k
DF Coding Score?
75.3Latency118.46 s?
DF Coding price$159/1M out?
GPT-5.3 CodexOpen AI
400k
DF Coding Score?
69.9Latency79.89 s?
DF Coding price$59.0/1M out?
Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic
1M
DF Coding Score?
68.5Latency20.26 s?
DF Coding price$154/1M out?
GPT-5.4Open AI
1M
DF Coding Score?
66.6Latency113.80 s?
DF Coding price$79.3/1M out?
Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)Google
1M
DF Coding Score?
62.0Latency25.74 s?
DF Coding price$63.4/1M out?
GPT-5.4 miniOpen AI
400k
DF Coding Score?
44.5Latency11.87 s?
DF Coding price$23.8/1M out?
GPT-5 miniOpen AI
400k
DF Coding Score?
40.1Latency85.30 s?
DF Coding price$9.18/1M out?
Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)Google
1M
DF Coding Score?
39.9Latency7.60 s?
DF Coding price$15.9/1M out?
Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic
1M
DF Coding Score?
31.8Latency1.16 s?
DF Coding price$92.1/1M out?
Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic
1M
DF Coding Score?
31.6Latency1.36 s?
DF Coding price$92.1/1M out?
Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle
1M
DF Coding Score?
17.9Latency22.54 s?
DF Coding price$42.1/1M out?
Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic
200k
DF Coding Score?
13.3Latency0.81 s?
DF Coding price$33.3/1M out?