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Which harness is the best coding agent?

7harnesses/18benchmarks/2026-07-22updated

An agent = a model + a harness. The harness is the scaffolding — the CLI or TUI — that wraps a raw model and turns it into something that edits files, runs tools, and finishes a task. Top Model holds the harness fixed and ranks models; here we flip it and rank the harnesses themselves — each scored by the best results it gets across the models we ran on it.

Harness leaderboard

7 harnesses

A single-model agent is still a real leaderboard entry — the Models column surfaces how many models we ran on each harness, so you can see coverage at a glance. Score is the best composite a harness reaches, so a harness is only as good as the models it can drive.

Known agents · not yet benchmarked

8 · popular on OpenRouter

Widely-used coding agents that haven't submitted to a benchmark we scrape (SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench, CodingAgentBench), so they have no harness × model scores yet — they can't be ranked until they do.

Hermes AgentAgent
Nous Research
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Kilo CodeIDE
Kilo
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OpenClawAgent
OpenClaw
LemonadeAgent
Lemonade
ClineIDE
Cline
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CursorIDE
Anysphere
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Roo CodeIDE
Roo Code
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ContinueIDE
Continue
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