You have heard of Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants. But the most powerful way to use them is the version living in your terminal — a CLI agent.
It sees your entire project, reads/edits files, runs commands, commits to git. You describe a task — it does it.
I compared 8 CLI coding agents:
- Claude Code — 80.8% — $200/mo
- MiniMax M2.5 — 80.2% — $10/mo
- GLM-5 — 77.8% — $6/mo
- Gemini CLI — 76.2% — free
- GPT-5.3 Codex — 75.4% — $200/mo
Key Findings
| Tool | SWE-bench Score | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | 80.8% | $200/mo |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 80.2% | $10/mo |
| GLM-5 | 77.8% | $6/mo |
| Gemini CLI | 76.2% | Free |
| GPT-5.3 Codex | 75.4% | $200/mo |
| Kimi K2.5 | 69.9% | $16/mo |
The sweet spot? MiniMax M2.5 at $10/month delivers 99.3% of Claude Code quality at 5% of the cost.
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