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Criterion	Gemini Code Assist	GitHub Copilot	Claude Code	OpenAI Codex	JetBrains AI
Provider	Google	GitHub	Anthropic	OpenAI	JetBrains
What it is for	Google's IDE coding assistant, now being retired in favour of the Antigravity family of products.	An AI pair programmer and coding agent that works in your editor, terminal and on GitHub itself.	Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDE, desktop or browser.	OpenAI's coding agent, included with ChatGPT plans and usable with an API key.	AI Assistant, the Junie agent and JetBrains Air for building software with agents in JetBrains IDEs.
Latest confirmed model	—	—	Claude Opus 5.5 Sep 22, 2026	GPT-6.1 Sol Sep 29, 2026	—
Main capabilities	IDE extensions (consumer tiers) (Limited) Standard and Enterprise (Limited) Consumer code review on GitHub (Limited)	Inline suggestions Agent mode in IDEs Copilot CLI Cloud agent (Depends on plan) Code review (Depends on plan) Third-party agent delegation (Preview)	Terminal CLI IDE extensions Desktop and web (Depends on plan) MCP, skills and hooks Routines and scheduled tasks GitHub Actions / GitLab CI and code review	Codex CLI and IDE extension Cloud tasks (Depends on plan) Desktop app (Limited) Fast and Ultrafast modes (Depends on plan) Extra credits (Depends on plan)	Code completion AI chat with third-party models (Depends on plan) Junie agent JetBrains Air Credit top-ups (Depends on plan)
Free plan	No	Yes 2,000 inline suggestions per month; 50 chat requests; limited chat and agent usage	No	Yes Quick coding tasks	Yes 3 AI credits per 30 days; unlimited code completion
Cheapest paid plan	No monthly list price	Pro: $10/mo	Pro: $20/mo $17/mo billed annually Annual billing is $200 up front	Go: $8/mo	AI Pro (individual): $10/mo $8.33/mo billed annually $100 per year; included at no extra cost with All Products Pack and dotUltimate (not complimentary student/OSS packs)
API access	No	No · docs (opens in a new tab)	Yes · docs (opens in a new tab)	Yes · docs (opens in a new tab)	No
Learning curve	Some experience helps	Beginner-friendly	Some experience helps	Some experience helps	Some experience helps
Last verified	Oct 19, 2026	Oct 19, 2026	Oct 19, 2026	Oct 19, 2026	Oct 19, 2026

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