Compare AI tools

	GitHub Copilot B	Symphony A	Raycast AI S	Windsurf A
Tagline	Microsoft/GitHub's autocomplete. Deep VS Code + JetBrains integration.	OpenAI's open-source daemon that turns your Linear board into an always-on coding agent factory — tickets go in, pull requests come out.	Mac launcher + AI. Command-bar genius.	Codeium's agentic IDE. Cascade agent + strong free tier.
Category	Coding	Agents	Productivity	Coding
Pricing	Free (limited) + $10/mo Pro + $19/mo Business	Free (open-source)	Free (app) + $10/mo AI	Free + $15/mo Pro
Best for	Teams with GitHub already. Devs who don't want to change IDEs.	Engineering teams already using Linear + OpenAI Codex who want to stop babysitting agent sessions and instead let the issue tracker drive autonomous coding at scale.	Power users on Mac who type a lot.	Developers who want Cursor-like power for less money.
Strengths	Great enterprise story Works in your existing IDE Chat + autocomplete	Fully autonomous ticket-to-PR pipeline: every open Linear issue gets its own isolated Codex agent without manual supervision Fault-tolerant Elixir/OTP architecture automatically restarts crashed agents and manages hundreds of concurrent runs WORKFLOW.md keeps all orchestration policy version-controlled inside the repo, so agent behavior is reproducible and reviewable like code Proven internal results: OpenAI reported a 500% increase in landed PRs on some teams within three weeks Open spec encourages community re-implementations in any language, not just Elixir	Invoke AI from anywhere on Mac with a hotkey Choose your model (Claude, GPT, etc.) AI Commands for repeatable workflows	Cheaper than Cursor Cascade agent for multi-file tasks Solid free tier
Weaknesses	Less agentic than Cursor/Claude Code Model quality varies	Currently only supports Linear as an issue tracker — GitHub Issues and Jira integrations are not yet official Only OpenAI Codex is officially supported as the agent runtime; other model integrations are community-contributed and incomplete Self-hosted, Elixir-dependent engineering preview with no built-in sandboxing — not suitable for untrusted or production environments out of the box	Mac-only Monthly AI sub on top of free app	Smaller community Model selection more limited
Kai's verdict	B-tier. Solid for autocomplete but the category moved past it. Pick Cursor unless you can't.	Symphony is the most architecturally serious 'issue tracker as control plane' approach yet — 15K GitHub stars in weeks confirms the idea resonates — but it's still a rough, self-hosted engineering preview that demands Elixir chops and a Linear-only workflow. (Verdict pending Phi's full review.)	S-tier if you're on Mac. The fastest way to get AI answers without context-switching.	A-tier. Close second to Cursor. If $5/mo matters, start here.
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