The index

Updated 2026-08-20

Six ways to point a model at your work.

They are not the same kind of thing, and most comparisons pretend otherwise. This one puts each product's own claims next to what people actually say about it, and links every single cell to the thing it came from.

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What they claim. Thirteen feature axes per product, each taken from the vendor's own documentation or pricing page, each carrying the URL and the date we read it. Where a vendor does not say, the cell reads unknown.

What people say. A sentiment score per product built from real public posts, with the sample size and where it came from stated on the same screen as the number. Every quote links to the comment.

Shapes

These six span four different shapes of product. A terminal agent and a team chat app do not compete on the same axes, so shape is the first row of the matrix, and cells that are meaningless across a shape boundary say so.

IDE CLI agent Team workspace Personal assistant

At a glance

The six

Sentiment bars read positive, mixed, negative left to right.

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Anysphere
IDE

AI coding editor from Anysphere with an in-editor agent, a terminal CLI, and cloud agents that run in isolated VMs.

-13  from 46 opinions · medium confidence

Claude Code

Anthropic
CLI agent

Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads a codebase, edits files, and runs commands from terminal, IDE, desktop app, and web.

-12  from 69 opinions · medium confidence

Codex

OpenAI
CLI agent

OpenAI's coding agent shipping as an Apache-2.0 CLI, IDE extension, desktop app, and cloud tasks started from web, GitHub, or Slack.

+16  from 58 opinions · medium confidence

Buzz

Block, Inc.
Team workspace

Self-hostable workspace on a Nostr relay where humans and AI agents share channels, threads, git events, and YAML workflows.

-40  from 65 opinions · low confidence

Hermes Agent

Nous Research
Personal assistant

Open-source self-hosted AI agent with a terminal UI and a messaging gateway, runnable against any model provider.

+1  from 110 opinions · medium confidence

OpenClaw

OpenClaw Foundation (created by Peter Steinberger)
Personal assistant

Open-source personal AI assistant that runs on the user's own devices and is reached through messaging apps, a CLI and a web UI.

-43  from 167 opinions · high confidence

Each score summarizes one sample of public opinion. See exactly how it was built before you lean on it.