About Code Agent Radar
An independent record of AI coding agent prices, limits, releases, and deals for developers in the US and Europe. Automated checks validate every change against its official source before it is published. A human reviews every newsletter issue before it is sent.
Methodology
Prices and limits come from the vendor official page named on each row. Releases and deals come from that vendor changelog, docs, blog, GitHub releases, or official feed. The allowed domains are listed in the official source list. 23 official pricing pages are checked from that list.
Official sources only
- Vendor news and releases use only the vendor own publications: official changelog, blog, release notes, GitHub releases from the vendor organization, or an official feed.
- Third-party media, Hacker News, Reddit, personal blogs, and aggregators are not sources for those records.
- OpenRouter prices and rankings, when used, come from the official OpenRouter API.
- Market radar charts use the dataset named on the chart, such as npm, GitHub, Stack Overflow, JetBrains, Menlo, or Ramp. Those are separate measurements. They are not combined into one share figure.
Every stored number has source_url and verified_at. If a vendor does not publish a figure, the page says Not disclosed. The page does not invent a number.
Deals with an end date before the build date are omitted from the site. The underlying record stays in the data file.
Which OpenRouter apps count as coding agents
Criterion: An app is included if its official website or repository describes itself as a coding agent, a coding assistant, or an AI code editor.
- Universe: every app OpenRouter lists in its coding category for the same window (top 50 by tokens from the app rankings dataset, category coding). OpenRouter's category is self-tagged by app developers and includes non-coding apps, so we classify each one.
- Evidence: for each app we open the official website (usually the one the app declares on OpenRouter) or its official repository, and record the URL plus a short verbatim phrase. Product names do not count as evidence. Only the app's own description does.
- Included: the official page or repo calls the product a coding agent, a coding assistant, or an AI code editor (or uses equivalent wording such as "agentic coding" or "AI 编程助手"). Only included apps appear in the coding-agent ranking.
- Excluded: the official page describes a different primary purpose (general-purpose or personal agent, AI gateway, security testing, game builder, and similar).
- Unclassified: there is no official site, the site was unreachable, the description is ambiguous, or the product is a harness, extension, general-purpose agent or multi-product suite that falls outside the criterion. These are listed for transparency but not ranked.
- Rank and tokens: rank is the app's position in OpenRouter's full coding category (all statuses). Raw tokens and requests are kept for every app. We do not compute shares for apps.
- Review: statuses are re-checked whenever an app first enters the list, and at least monthly. A status change keeps the old record and adds a new dated record.
- Display notes: if an included app's official repo is archived or the product is discontinued, display_note says so and the page shows it next to the entry.
- Exclusion of our own products: Cozy Deck, owned by the site owner, is never listed in any ranking, even if it appears in source data.