Comparison to competitors Superconductor is currently the best way to run AI coding agents in the cloud.
The way software development is done is in flux. Every week, new tools are emerging. We are well-funded and fully committed to remaining the best platform for building software with AI agents.
This comparison focuses on running coding agents in the cloud, not locally. Features and capabilities may differ for local or CLI-only usage.
Here is how we compare to some popular competitors:
Feature Superconductor Claude Code Web Devin Codex Jules Cursor BG Agents Supported agent harnesses Claude Code, Amp, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, OpenCode Claude Code Proprietary agent Codex CLI Gemini-powered agent Proprietary agent (multi-model) Supported models Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.3/Spark, Gemini 3 Pro/Flash, and more Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 Proprietary (SWE-1.5), Claude Sonnet 4.5 GPT-5.3/Spark, GPT-5.2-Codex, GPT-5.2, GPT-5.1-Codex Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash Sonnet, Opus, GPT-5.2, Gemini, Grok Pricing Monthly (future) + bring your own keys or Claude/OpenAI plan $20/mo Pro, $100-200/mo Max, $30/mo Team, Enterprise $20/mo Core, $500/mo Team + ACUs $20/mo Plus, $200/mo Pro, $30/user/mo Team, Enterprise Free (15 tasks/day), $19.99/mo Pro, $249.99/mo Ultra $20/mo Pro, $60/mo Pro+, $200/mo Ultra
Feature Superconductor Claude Code Web Devin Codex Jules Cursor BG Agents Ability to run Docker ✅ Yes ❌ No ✅ Yes ❌ No ✅ Yes ✅ Yes Live app preview ✅ Yes ❌ No ✅ Yes (built-in browser) ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Yes (built-in browser) Ability to snapshot after running build commands ✅ Yes ❌ No ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No
Feature Superconductor Claude Code Web Devin Codex Jules Cursor BG Agents Guided code review ✅ Yes ⚠️ Diff view ✅ Yes ⚠️ In-app diff review ❌ No ❌ No Built-in benchmarking ✅ Yes (beta) ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No Mobile-first ✅ Native (iOS), PWA (Android) ⚠️ iOS app (monitoring only) ❌ No ⚠️ ChatGPT iOS app, web on Android ⚠️ Web-based only ⚠️ PWA (progressive web app) only Skills/Extensions ✅ Agent Skills ✅ MCP servers ✅ Playbooks ✅ Skills library ❌ No ⚠️ Cursor rules Email triage PM agent ✅ Yes (beta) ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No Video input ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No Desktop app ❌ No ✅ Yes (macOS) ❌ No ✅ Yes (macOS) ❌ No ✅ Cursor IDE
Feature Superconductor Claude Code Web Devin Codex Jules Cursor BG Agents Max simultaneous agents per task ✅ Unlimited ⚠️ Multiple parallel sessions ⚠️ Multiple (parallel Devins) ⚠️ Multiple (parallel threads per project) ⚠️ 3-60 concurrent (depending on plan) ⚠️ Up to 8 Num repos per environment ✅ Unlimited ⚠️ One ✅ Unlimited ⚠️ One ⚠️ One ⚠️ One
Feature Superconductor Claude Code Web Devin Codex Jules Cursor BG Agents Version control ✅ GitHub ✅ GitHub, ⚠️ GitLab (CI/CD only) ✅ GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket ✅ GitHub ✅ GitHub ✅ GitHub, ⚠️ GitLab Issue tracker ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Linear, Jira, Shortcut ✅ Linear ✅ GitHub Issues ✅ Linear Slack ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No ✅ Yes IDE ❌ No ⚠️ Web + CLI teleport ⚠️ Cloud IDE ✅ Yes (macOS app, VSCode, Cursor, Windsurf, CLI, Web) ⚠️ CLI (Jules Tools) ✅ Cursor IDE