Field notes on AI coding agents — what they cost, where they break, what shipped. Every published figure (prices, percentages, multiples, token counts and durations) as JSON and CSV, each row carrying the sentence it came from.
4 of the 24 write-ups here are tagged Development Tools. Every figure quoted below is in the figures table with the sentence it came from.
OmniRoute aggregates 237 providers and advertises roughly 1.6 billion free tokens a month, and that figure is arithmetic rather than a promotion, because the RTK+Caveman layer compresses 10,000 tok…
A specialized code review agent beat Claude Code on accuracy across 200 real pull requests and 50 open-source repositories while burning about one-ninth the tokens.
Fable 5, the cheapest option at $9.05 per run, delivers only 41.2% accuracy in React projects.
MonkeyCode’s free tier includes 900 million tokens, deploys to your own network with 1 command, and ships as open source you can read.