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Best SWE-agent alternatives

5 tools developers use instead of SWE-agent, ranked by popularity. 4 offer a free plan and 1 is open source. Updated October 2026.

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  1. Devin logo

    Devin

    Free plan

    Cognition AI's autonomous software engineer that plans, writes, debugs, and ships code with limited human oversight, across several model backends.

  2. OpenHands logo

    OpenHands

    Free Open source

    Open-source platform for autonomous coding agents built by All Hands AI, running in a sandboxed Docker environment to fix issues and open pull requests.

  3. Replit Agent logo

    Replit Agent

    Free plan

    Replit's autonomous app-building agent that plans, writes, and deploys a full application from a prompt, provisioning its own database and hosting inside Replit's cloud IDE.

  4. Jules logo

    Jules

    Free plan

    Google's asynchronous coding agent that clones your GitHub repo into a cloud VM, works on tasks in the background and opens pull requests.