Jules alternatives in 2026: 7 coding agents to hand your tasks to instead

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product, and it runs Antigravity, Claude Code and Codex. We checked every option below against its maker’s own pages on October 31, 2026, and we say where another one is the better pick.

Jules alternatives compared

Jules cloned your GitHub repository into a cloud VM, drafted a plan for you to approve, and did the work while you were elsewhere: “You are free to leave Jules while it is running,” its docs say. On October 29, 2026, Google announced that Jules “will wind down on December 31, 2026.” Our memo on the shutdown covers the dates and the export. These are the agents people weigh to take over its work.

Option	Best for	Price, checked October 31, 2026	Where it works	How you give it work
Claude Code cloud sessions	Claude, with your laptop shut	Claude Pro $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly; Max $100; Ultra $200	Anthropic’s cloud	The web, the Claude app, the desktop app, claude --cloud
Codex Cloud	OpenAI’s models, with your laptop shut	ChatGPT Plus $20 a month; Pro from $100	OpenAI’s cloud	The web, the ChatGPT apps, the CLI, Slack
GitHub Copilot cloud agent	Work that starts from a GitHub issue	Copilot Pro $10 a month; Pro+ $39; Max $100; sandbox time billed from November	GitHub’s cloud sandboxes	Issues, github.com, GitHub Mobile, VS Code, the CLI
Cursor cloud agents	Cursor users, starting tasks from a comment	Premium $30 a month, other labs’ models at API prices; Super $100; Ultra $200	Cursor’s cloud VMs	Cursor’s apps and web, Slack, GitHub, Linear, the API
Devin	Tagging an agent in Slack or a ticket	Pro $20 a month; Max $200; Teams $80 plus $40 a seat	Devin Cloud, or your computer	Slack, Teams, Linear, Jira, the web, the Devin CLI
Google Antigravity	Staying with Google	Free weekly quota; Google AI Pro $19.99 a month; Ultra from $99.99	Your computer	The app, the CLI, Remote Control in a browser
Enjoy	Antigravity beside Claude Code and Codex	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days, with your phone and other computers (pricing)	Your computer, or another of yours that stays on	The app, your phone, any browser, scheduled workflows

Prices are per month as each maker lists them in the US, before tax. The five cloud agents come with their makers’ own plans and draw on those plans’ usage. Antigravity uses Google’s plans, and Enjoy runs each agent on the Google, Claude or ChatGPT plan you already have.

Why Jules users need somewhere new

Three lines in Google’s own pages decide it:

• New work ends on November 11. “You have until November 11, 2026 to continue finishing up sessions. After November 11, 2026, we will be turning Jules to read-only until the end of the year,” says the notice.
• Google’s successor isn’t ready. The notice names “our agent-first platform, Google Antigravity,” and the Jules account says on X that Google is “bringing our learnings from Jules into @antigravity” for “autonomous remote background task execution and an agent-first development environment.” Neither gives a date, and Antigravity runs on your own computer today.
• The free cloud tier goes with it. Jules’s usage page gives its free plan 15 tasks a day, three at a time, with 100 on Google AI Pro and 300 on Ultra. Every cloud agent below needs a paid plan.

Claude Code’s cloud sessions

Best for: handing Claude a task in a GitHub repository and closing your laptop.

“A cloud session is a Claude Code session that runs on cloud infrastructure instead of on your machine,” say Anthropic’s docs. “The session keeps running after you close your laptop, and you can check on it or steer it from any device.” You start one at claude.ai/code, in the Code tab of the Claude app on your phone, in the desktop app, or with claude --cloud in a terminal, and “each --cloud command creates its own cloud session that runs independently.” When it’s done, you open a pull request, and Auto-fix can watch it for CI failures and review comments.

Jules’s two other habits have homes here too. Cloud scheduled tasks run “on a recurring cadence like hourly, nightly, or weekly,” on an API call or on GitHub events. And for Jules’s label, Claude Code GitHub Actions lets you “Mention @claude in a pull request or issue comment to have Claude analyze code, implement changes, and push commits,” on your own GitHub Actions minutes.

Price: “Cloud sessions are available on Pro, Max, Ultra, and Team plans,” and “there’s no separate charge for the cloud VM.” Claude’s pricing has Pro at $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, Max at $100 and Ultra at $200. The free plan doesn’t include Claude Code.

Watch for: “cloud sessions share rate limits with all other Claude and Claude Code usage within your account. Running multiple tasks in parallel consumes more rate limits proportionately.” Cloning and pull requests “require GitHub,” and cloud scheduled tasks “are in research preview”: cron “Expressions that run more often than once per hour are rejected.”

Codex Cloud

Best for: OpenAI’s models, in much the shape Jules had.

“Give Codex coding tasks to work through in the cloud, from investigating bugs to building features,” says OpenAI’s Codex Cloud page. You choose the GitHub repositories for an environment, and each task gets its own workspace that “can keep working while your computer is asleep.” You review the changes and test results, ask for follow-ups, then commit or open a pull request. You can carry on from the web, the ChatGPT apps on your phone or desktop, the Codex CLI or Slack.

Price: Codex’s pricing lists “Codex on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension, and on iOS” from Plus, at $20 a month. Pro comes at “$100, $200, or $500 USD per month,” and “Pro plans currently have no five-hour limit.” Free and Go get “GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout,” on your own computer. Our Plus vs Pro guide helps choose.

Watch for: “Local messages and cloud chats share your plan’s usage allowance,” and “Cloud tasks may use more of your allowance than local messages.” It runs only OpenAI’s models.

GitHub Copilot’s cloud agent

Best for: work that starts from a GitHub issue, as Jules’s “jules” label did.

GitHub’s plans page puts it plainly: “Assign work to Copilot to research, plan, and write code — with or without a pull request.” Its docs say “Copilot can research a repository, plan changes, and implement them in the background,” and each session gets a cloud sandbox, “an isolated Linux environment that GitHub creates for a Copilot session.” You can start one from an issue, from github.com, from GitHub Mobile, from VS Code and other IDEs, or from the GitHub CLI. For Jules’s scheduled tasks, Automations run the agent on a schedule, on a repository event or from the API.

Price: Pro is $10 a month, Pro+ $39 and Max $100, and the cloud agent is “Not included” on Free. The model’s work uses GitHub AI Credits from your plan. Separately, “Billing for cloud sandbox usage begins in November 2026,” GitHub says: sandbox time draws first on the compute your GitHub plan includes, then is billed by usage. Our Universe memo has the rates.

Watch for: “Copilot only works with repositories hosted on GitHub,” and it “can open one pull request per task.” Automations need a repository that is “private or internal.”

Cursor’s cloud agents

Best for: people already in Cursor who want to start a task from Slack or a GitHub comment.

Cursor’s cloud agents “run in isolated VMs in the cloud with full development environments instead of on your local machine.” They clone your repository from GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps or Bitbucket Cloud, “work on a separate branch, then push changes to your repo for handoff,” and you can start them from Cursor’s iPhone app, the web at cursor.com/agents, the desktop app, Slack, an @cursor comment on GitHub or Bitbucket, Linear or the API.

Price: Cursor’s pricing lists cloud agents from Premium, at $30 a month, then Super at $100 and Ultra at $200, with Teams from $30 a user. Premium and above include Grok’s models, and Claude, GPT and Gemini come “at API list price,” since those plans “do not include an allowance for third-party models.”

Watch for: “Free and Plus don’t include them,” and other labs’ models are billed by use on top of the plan, so set a spending limit you’re comfortable with.

Devin

Best for: a team that wants to tag an agent in Slack, Teams or a ticket and get a pull request back.

Cognition calls Devin “your team’s autonomous software engineer”: it “runs in the cloud or on your machine, tests in its own browser, and won’t stop until the PR is ready to merge,” and it “Keeps working when your laptop is closed.” You tag @Devin in Slack or Teams, give it Linear issues or Jira tickets, or use the web app, and the Devin CLI’s /handoff “creates a cloud session that picks up where you left off.” Its editor, Devin Desktop, “is the new name for Windsurf.”

Price: Devin’s pricing has a free plan with a “Light quota to code with agents” and no cloud. Pro, at $20 a month, adds “Access to cloud agents (Devin Cloud)” and lets you “Purchase extra usage at API pricing.” Max is $200, and Teams is “$80/month for team plan + $40/mo per full dev seat.”

Watch for: its own guidance on task size: “if a task would take you three hours or less, Devin can most likely do it,” and “For longer tasks, break them into smaller sessions.”

Google Antigravity

Best for: staying with Google, on your own computer.

Antigravity is Google’s “dedicated platform to work with agents,” “Available on macOS, Windows, Linux, and Googlebook,” according to its product page, and it’s where Google says Jules’s lessons are going. Its Scheduled Tasks let you “define a cron schedule and the agents start and run autonomously in the background,” and Remote Control lets you “securely connect to and drive your Antigravity desktop sessions” from a browser.

Price: every plan gets “Access to all product features, such as scheduled tasks and the CLI,” says its plans page, and accounts without Pro or Ultra get “A meaningful quota, refreshed weekly.” Google AI Pro is $19.99 a month, and Ultra is $99.99 or $199.99. From November 2, a free account’s only model is Gemini 3.8 Flash, per the models page, while Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 are “Available on Google AI Pro for non-trial subscriptions only.”

Watch for: it isn’t Jules yet. The work happens on your machine, and Remote Control needs a host that “has an active internet connection and is not asleep or suspended.” There’s “currently no support” for bringing your own keys. Our Antigravity alternatives guide compares it with other coding apps.

Enjoy

Best for: keeping Google’s agent and adding Claude Code and Codex, on a computer of your own.

Enjoy runs Antigravity on your Google account beside Claude Code on your Claude plan and Codex on your ChatGPT plan, along with Grok Build, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode, on Mac, Windows and Linux. What it offers someone leaving Jules:

• Leave it working. Agents run on your computer while you follow them from your phone or any browser, and “Work that’s already running keeps going on the computer while your phone is away,” as our guide puts it. Enjoy keeps the computer from sleeping while an agent works, and you can run your agents on another computer, such as a Mac mini that stays on at home.
• Switch agents mid-conversation. Start with Antigravity and hand the work to Claude Code or Codex: “The new agent gets the conversation so far, including replies from other agents, before it works on your message.”
• Keep going through limits. When an agent runs out of usage, Enjoy switches to another of your accounts that still has usage, or waits for the limit to reset, then continues.
• Recurring jobs. Your Jules scheduled tasks can become scheduled workflows, run by any of your agents.

Price: Enjoy is one monthly subscription, and the first seven days are free, with a card to start. It includes your phone and any browser and your other computers, and each teammate you invite needs a subscription of their own. See pricing.

Watch for: Enjoy runs nothing in the cloud. The computer doing the work has to be on, online and running Enjoy, and if you close a laptop’s lid, your devices can’t reach it until it wakes. Scheduled workflows run only while your computer is awake with Enjoy open, and missed times are skipped, not made up. It doesn’t take tasks from GitHub issues, and in its default mode Antigravity “approves every tool, including commands and file changes,” as our Antigravity guide explains. Enjoy isn’t open source, and it’s a monthly subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends.

When to stay with Google

Jules itself is only an option until November 11. Staying with Google still makes sense if you pay for Google AI Pro or Ultra and Gemini does your work: Antigravity comes with the plan, it’s the successor Google names, and its scheduled tasks and Remote Control cover much of what Jules did, as long as one of your computers stays on. If you can work on your own machine for now, you can wait there for the background tasks Google has promised.

Move now when you need tasks that keep running with every computer of yours off, when your scheduled jobs need a home before November 11, or when you want Claude or GPT doing the work.

How we compared

We read each maker’s homepage, pricing and docs on October 31, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote their own words for the limits, and we don’t count features a maker hasn’t documented. Cloud agents and their prices change often, so we recheck this guide against its sources at least once a month, and the date at the foot of the page says when we last did.