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TL;DR: Coding agents became a real product category in 2025–2026. Cline leads for VS Code users with cloud API access; Aider is the best terminal agent for local models at 32B+; OpenHands handles autonomous issue-fixing at 72% SWE-bench Verified. Using any of these is a cost and privacy play — commercial agents (Cursor, Claude Code) still outperform on pure capability.

Aider

Cline

OpenHands