Alternatives to Jules

Google's asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repositories in a cloud VM and opens pull requests. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

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  • Jules

    Google's asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repositories in a cloud VM and opens pull requests.

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Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Jules.

  • Devin

    An autonomous AI coding agent that works on engineering tasks and delivers ready-to-merge pull requests.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Devin is a paid autonomous agent that delivers ready-to-merge pull requests and tests changes in its own browser, aimed at teams with pricing not shown.

  • Factory

    AI coding agents called Droids that plan, build, review and ship code from desktop, terminal and web.

    Factory's Droids plan, build and review code from desktop, terminal and web with a choice of models, oriented toward enterprise teams rather than GitHub only.

  • Amp

    Coding agent that runs from a CLI on your machine or unattended in hosted environments called orbs.

    Amp runs agents unattended in hosted orbs or locally from a CLI, with event-driven automations, instead of Google cloud VMs tied to GitHub.

  • SWE-agent

    An open-source agent that takes a GitHub issue and tries to fix it using a language model of your choice.

    SWE-agent is a free, open-source CLI agent that takes a GitHub issue and tries to fix it with your chosen model, but it is research-oriented rather than polished.

  • Augment Code

    An AI software development platform with agents, a CLI and a context engine for large codebases.

    Augment Code is a paid platform with cloud agents and a CLI built around a context engine for large codebases, aimed at organisations.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.