GitLab Duo Agent Platform vs GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Qodo
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
GitLab Duo Agent Platform
GitLab's AI agent platform that orchestrates agents across planning, c...
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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Cursor
AI-first VS Code fork — agentic, codebase-aware editing
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Qodo
Agentic PR review and test generation for engineering teams
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) | Hobby plan — standing free tier (not just a trial), 2,000 completions / 50 slow premium requests per month, no card required | — |
| Paid from | Included with GitLab Premium and Ultimate subscriptions. | Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo | $20/month (Pro); Pro+ $60/month; Ultra $200/month; Teams $40/user/month | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 1m+ developers | — |
| Founded | — | — | 2022 | — |
| Maker | GitLab Inc. | Microsoft | SpaceX | — |
| Verdict | What this is for: Running AI agents that plan work, write code, review security, and assist operations inside a single DevSecOps platform. Who this is for: Engineering and security teams already on GitLab that want agen... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl... |
Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor going — a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file agent edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and Composer are... |
Qodo's pitch is coverage of the whole pipeline — IDE, PR, CI, Git — rather than a single-purpose bot, and the February 2026 shift to Qodo 2.0 came with the company publishing its own review benchmark claiming the highest... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.