# The best autonomous coding agents

> Which agent can pick up an issue and open the pull request without me watching?

- Canonical: https://serchai.com/en/best-ai/autonomous-agents/
- Site: Serchai (https://serchai.com) — AI tools comparator
- Language: en
- Updated: 2026-08-11

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> **The question this segment answers:** Which agent can pick up an issue and open the pull request without me watching?

## Ranking

1. [OpenHands](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/openhands/) — 4.1/5 · Free — The open source agent that picks up the labelled issue and opens the pull request on your own infrastructure.
2. [Conductor](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/conductor/) — 3.8/5 · Free — Orchestrates several Claude Code agents in parallel from a Mac app.
3. [PaellaDoc](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/paelladoc/) — 3.7/5 · Free — The autonomous local software factory: from discovery to validated code on your Mac.
4. [Jules](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/jules/) — 3.7/5 · Free — Google's asynchronous agent: leave it tasks and it brings back finished changes.
5. [Devin](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/devin/) — 3.5/5 · Free + from $20 — Cognition's autonomous engineer, now across four surfaces: Desktop (the former Windsurf), Cloud, CLI and Review.