AgentsBuilder: ship agents with code, sdks or local models
Coding agents, agent SDKs, tool connections and local model runtimes, compared on the same facts so you can pick a stack and ship.
Your path, step by step
The pick from each frontier lab
OpenAI Codex
Choose it if: People who already pay for ChatGPT
Included in ChatGPT Free and Go (limited trial access), Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise. Pro comes in $100 and $200 tiers, and Business in $20 and $100 tiers, per OpenAI's Codex pricing page. Usage per 5-hour window depends on the model. You can also pay through an API key.
Claude Code
Choose it if: Developers who live in the terminal
Included with Claude Pro ($20/mo, or $17/mo billed annually) and Max (from $100/mo), and shares the plan's usage limits. Team Standard seats are $20/seat/mo annually ($25 monthly). You can also pay per token through the API.
Gemini CLI & Jules
Choose it if: A free, capable terminal agent
Gemini CLI is free with a Google account: up to 1,000 requests a day (Google AI Pro 1,500, Ultra 2,000). Jules allows 15 tasks a day free, 100 on Pro and 300 on Ultra. Google AI Pro is $19.99/mo.
Grok Build
Choose it if: Grok subscribers who want a terminal agent
Grok Build in the Grok apps is on every plan, per xAI (Aug 19, 2026). Grok plans are sold as The X Subscription: Free; Plus $8/mo; Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo.
GitHub Copilot (agent mode, cloud agent & CLI)
Choose it if: Teams whose code already lives on GitHub
Free $0 (limited chat and agent use); Pro $10/mo; Pro+ $39/mo; Max $100/mo; Business $19/seat/mo; Enterprise $39/seat/mo. Chat, agents, code review and CLI use GitHub AI Credits (1 credit = $0.01), and each plan includes a monthly allowance. Code completions don't use credits on paid plans.
Independent options worth a look
Cursor
Choose it if: Developers who want AI inside their editor
Free; Plus $8/mo; Premium $30/mo; Super $100/mo; Ultra $200/mo; Teams $30, $100 or $200 per seat. Legacy Pro ($20) plans continue for existing subscribers.
n8n
Choose it if: Ops teams that want control and self-hosting
Self-hosted Community Edition free. Cloud plans priced by workflow executions; see the official pricing page.
Ollama
Choose it if: Powering VS Code, Continue, OpenClaw and Hermes with local models
Free for local models. Optional cloud plans: $20/mo (or $200/yr) and $100/mo, for Ollama-hosted models.
Jev (TypeSafe)
Choose it if: Routing requests to the right handler, whether code, a specialist LLM or a human
$0.042 per million input tokens ($42 per billion). Output tokens are free. Jev 1.14 and 1.13 are priced the same. Rate limits are set per organization; higher limits on custom and enterprise plans.
Advanced recipes with multiple integrations
Social posts for several platforms from one idea
Turns one idea into platform-specific drafts (LinkedIn, Facebook, X), emails you the set for approval, and publishes only what you approve.
For marketers & creators
Second brain over your Gmail and Calendar
Runs a coding agent inside a dedicated folder with Google's official Workspace command-line tool, so it can read your mail, calendar and files and keep organized notes about them.
For individuals & families
Runs on its own each day · read-only access · asks before acting
Email Scam Filter
Scans your Gmail every morning in read-only mode for phishing, fake invoices, blackmail, fake prize offers, impostor IT alerts, and other known or emerging scams.
For individuals & families
Runs on its own every morning · read-only access
Bookmark-to-Demo Builder
Turns your interesting X Bookmarks into working demos.
For busy professionals
Runs on its own each morning
n8n Master
Dedicateds Grok Bot for @n8n_io — live docs, workflow skills, and instance control over HTTP MCP (canary-first).
For founders & operators
Hermes API Fleet
The steady path — Hermes over HTTP :8642 on the private net. Soles path for fleet/HERDR/identity ask (SSH relay forbidden for that).
For founders & operators
asks before acting