Compare: Ship code with AI

Up to 4 ways to do Ship code with AI, side by side. Cost, tools, level, and workflow.

Ship code with AI

Code · Workflow

Level: Beginner
Cost (Small): $0/mo
Solo OSS maintainer
Cost (Medium): $32/mo
Indie team, 1 to 3 devs, private repo
Cost (Heavy): $160/mo
5-dev startup, daily PRs, Max plans
Tools: Claude Claude Code CodeRabbit
Workflow: 1. Scope the change with Claude
2. Hand the plan to Claude Code
3. Open the PR
4. Triage the findings
5. Apply fixes with Claude
6. Re-review and merge
Pitfalls: • Skipping the plan step
• Letting Claude Code run unsupervised on first use
• Treating every CodeRabbit nit as a blocker
• Skipping the human review
• Auto-applying suggested fixes blindly

Claude Code only

Code · Workflow

Level: Intermediate
Cost (Small): $0/mo
Solo OSS maintainer
Cost (Medium): $32/mo
Indie dev, daily PRs
Cost (Heavy): $160/mo
Heavy agentic use, multiple parallel sessions
Tools: Claude Code CodeRabbit
Workflow: 1. Open a session
2. Open the PR
3. Triage CodeRabbit, in-session
4. Re-review and merge
Pitfalls: • No external rubber duck
• Yolo mode on a real repo

Cursor (IDE-first)

Code · Workflow

Level: Beginner
Cost (Small): $0/mo
Solo OSS, Hobby tier
Cost (Medium): $20/mo
Indie dev, daily PRs
Cost (Heavy): $200/mo
5-dev team, Business plan
Tools: Cursor
Workflow: 1. Plan in Cursor's chat panel
2. Implement with Composer
3. Inline iterate with Cmd-K
4. Open the PR
5. Patch findings inline
Pitfalls: • Composer's tab cost on big diffs
• Bugbot is Cursor-only

Antigravity (Google)

Code · Workflow

Level: Intermediate
Cost (Small): $0/mo
Solo OSS, preview tier
Cost (Medium): $40/mo
Solo dev, full IDE features
Cost (Heavy): $200/mo
Team on Google Cloud
Tools: Antigravity Claude
Workflow: 1. Open the repo in Antigravity
2. Hand the planner the ticket
3. Editor agent applies the plan
4. Cross-vendor review with Claude
5. Apply review fixes
Pitfalls: • Preview-tier limits
• Whole-repo context can leak secrets

Ship code with AI

Code · Workflow

The full SDLC with three Anthropic-and-friends tools. Claude (chat) scopes the change so the diff stays small. Claude Code, the terminal agent, writes and edits across files without copy-pasting context. CodeRabbit reviews every PR, Claude turns its findings into patches, and the human reviewer only sees clean diffs.

Claude Code only

Code · Workflow

If you live in the terminal, you don't need a chat tab next to your editor. Claude Code can plan a change, edit the files, run the tests, and stage the commit — all in one session. CodeRabbit reviews the PR; you bounce findings back to the same Claude Code session for fixes.

Cursor (IDE-first)

Code · Workflow

If you'd rather see the diff as you go than read a terminal log, Cursor is the answer. Cmd-K for inline edits, agent mode for multi-file changes, Bugbot reviews the PR. The editor stays the source of truth all the way through.

Antigravity (Google)

Code · Workflow

Antigravity is Google's answer to Cursor. The differentiator: Gemini's 2M-token context window means the IDE can hold the entire repo in its working memory. Best fit when your codebase is big and your platform is already Google.

Level

Beginner

Intermediate

Beginner

Intermediate

Cost (Small)

$0/mo

Solo OSS maintainer

$0/mo

Solo OSS maintainer

$0/mo

Solo OSS, Hobby tier

$0/mo

Solo OSS, preview tier

Cost (Medium)

$32/mo

Indie team, 1 to 3 devs, private repo

$32/mo

Indie dev, daily PRs

$20/mo

Indie dev, daily PRs

$40/mo

Solo dev, full IDE features

Cost (Heavy)

$160/mo

5-dev startup, daily PRs, Max plans

$160/mo

Heavy agentic use, multiple parallel sessions

$200/mo

5-dev team, Business plan

$200/mo

Team on Google Cloud

Tools

Workflow steps

1. Scope the change with Claude
2. Hand the plan to Claude Code
3. Open the PR
4. Triage the findings
5. Apply fixes with Claude
6. Re-review and merge

1. Open a session
2. Open the PR
3. Triage CodeRabbit, in-session
4. Re-review and merge

1. Plan in Cursor's chat panel
2. Implement with Composer
3. Inline iterate with Cmd-K
4. Open the PR
5. Patch findings inline

1. Open the repo in Antigravity
2. Hand the planner the ticket
3. Editor agent applies the plan
4. Cross-vendor review with Claude
5. Apply review fixes

Pitfalls

• Skipping the plan step
• Letting Claude Code run unsupervised on first use
• Treating every CodeRabbit nit as a blocker
• Skipping the human review
• Auto-applying suggested fixes blindly

• No external rubber duck
• Yolo mode on a real repo

• Composer's tab cost on big diffs
• Bugbot is Cursor-only

• Preview-tier limits
• Whole-repo context can leak secrets