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Best SWE-agent Alternatives

146 agents you can use instead of SWE-agent. Ranked by popularity, tag overlap, and public GitHub signals when available.

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SWE-agent

Reference

Princeton's autonomous agent for resolving GitHub issues and software engineering benchmarks

20.1K5d ago97
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Top Alternatives to SWE-agent

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OpenHands

Open-source AI software agent platform, formerly OpenDevin

OSSFree
All Hands AI
84.8Ktoday459
4 shared tags
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Devin

The first fully autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition

Commercialpaid
Cognition
3.1K25w ago18
3 shared tags
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EvoKernel

Self-evolving framework for NPU kernel synthesis without fine-tuning or large datasets

OSSFree
Research
3 shared tags
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Tycho

Game-playing agent that builds programmatic world models for active abstraction and skill learning

OSSFree
Research Team
3 shared tags
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Cline

Autonomous AI coding agent in VS Code — 59K+ stars

OSSFree
Cline
66.6Ktoday315
2 shared tags
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Codex CLI

OpenAI's official CLI coding agent — 64K+ stars

OSSFree
OpenAI
111.7Ktoday471
2 shared tags
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Gemini CLI

Google's open-source AI agent for the terminal — 97K+ stars

OSSFree
Google
106.6Ktoday442
2 shared tags
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Goose

Block's extensible AI agent for the terminal — 33K+ stars

OSSFree
Block
53.2Ktoday449
2 shared tags
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AdsMind

Physics-grounded multi-agent system for catalyst surface adsorption discovery

OSSFree
Research Collaboration
2 shared tags
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AgenticSeek

Fully local autonomous AI agent with zero API costs, powered by DeepSeek-R1

OSSFree
Fosowl
2 shared tags
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AgentSeek

Fully local autonomous AI agent with web browsing, coding, and voice assistance

OSSFree
Fosowl
2 shared tags
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Antares

Lightweight security-focused terminal agent for vulnerability detection and code analysis

OSSFree
Foundation AI
2 shared tags

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