at a third of the costFour setups ran the same 1,344 coding tasks. ML.ai averaged 78.8% at $0.031 per task, against 78.4% at $0.085 for Claude Code with the Claude family.
Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding agent
How Claude Code works
inside the editor you already use
Build
Fix the failing checkout test
Read cart.ts and cart.test.ts
Traced the failure to line 41
Edit checkout/cart.ts?
1 line changed, diff open on the left
Both agents read the code, write the fix and run the tests. ML.ai sends the reading and test runs to a fast model and the edit to the flagship one.
Same request, both products
“Fix the failing test”
1Read and trace
2Edit the file
3Run the tests
ML.ai1Routes each step
Read and traceFast model
Write the fixFlagship model
Run the testsPassed
2Asks before the edit
each doterminal
Anthropic’s coding agent, in the terminal, VS Code and Cursor, JetBrains, a desktop app and the web. It runs on Claude models through a Claude plan, the Claude Console or a cloud provider.
composer
A coding agent in VS Code, Cursor and a desktop app. You pick a tier and ML.ai manages the model behind it, sending reads and test runs to a fast model and edits to the flagship.
Use this if
You want Claude models specifically, a CLI you can script in CI today, or a surface ML.ai doesn’t have yet: JetBrains, the web, mobile or Slack.
Use this if
You want Claude Code’s accuracy on everyday coding work for about a third of the cost per task, on a fixed plan from $10 a month.
The same categories, row by row. Every line on both sides comes from a doc, pricing page or published benchmark.
ML.aiClaude Code
78.4% with the Claude family, the baseline.
Claude Code with Claude Fable scored highest of the four setups, 82.6%.
ML.ai
78.8% across six core benchmarks, on the same 1,344 tasks.
Tied 1st on SWE-bench Verified at 95.0%, and 4th of 4 on Terminal-Bench at 66.7%.
Claude Code
$0.085 with the Claude family ($114.19 in total) and $0.333 with Claude Fable ($447.37).
Claude Code
Claude Code supports third-party providers in the CLI, VS Code and JetBrains, so another model can sit behind it.
ML.ai
Claude Code running the ML.ai model costs $0.053 per task at 76.1% mean accuracy.
The full ML.ai agent and model does better on both.
Claude Code
You choose a Claude model with /model, or keep your plan’s default.
Models come from Anthropic or a cloud provider such as Amazon Bedrock.
ML.ai
You pick a tier, from ML.ai Flash to ML.ai High, and ML.ai manages the model behind it.
Every plan includes auto model routing.
Claude Code
Six permission modes, from Manual to bypassPermissions.
Recent versions start in Auto, where a classifier model reviews actions instead of you.
ML.ai
Ask is the default: each action waits for Allow, Always or Deny, with a diff before supported edits.
Auto answers for you, and sudo or deletes that can’t be proven safe are refused in every mode.
Claude Code
Automatic review on every pull request through GitHub Code Review, plus GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD.
ML.ai
/review reviews uncommitted changes, a commit, a branch or a PR, and runs when you call it.
Claude Code
A terminal CLI, VS Code and Cursor, JetBrains, a desktop app, the web and mobile, plus Slack.
ML.ai
A VS Code and Cursor extension and a desktop app, both available now.
The CLI is coming soon.
Claude Code
The CLI runs on macOS, Linux, WSL and Windows.
The desktop app runs on macOS and Windows, with Linux in beta.
ML.ai
The desktop app runs on macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows x64 and ARM64, and Linux x64.
The extension needs VS Code 1.125 or later, or Cursor.
Claude Code
Pro $20 a month ($17 billed annually), Max $100 and Ultra $200.
The Free plan doesn’t include Claude Code.
ML.ai
Infinite $10, Infinite Pro $20 and Infinite Max $40 a month, priced by jobs in parallel (2, 6 or 20).
India pays in rupees.
Claude Code
Team seats are $25 or $125 a month ($20 or $100 billed annually).
Enterprise is $20 per seat a month with a 20-seat minimum, plus usage at API rates.
ML.ai
Team is $29 per seat a month, billed annually with a 5-seat minimum.
Enterprise is a custom contract with self-hosted or VPC deployment.
Claude Code
A Claude subscription, the Claude Console, or a cloud provider such as Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud or Microsoft Foundry.
ML.ai
One ML.ai account and no API keys.
Prompts, selected file content and tool results go to the ML.ai model service.
ML.ai’s own limits sit beside theirs, with the same weight.
The cheapest Claude setup in the benchmark cost $0.085 per task, about 2.7 times ML.ai’s $0.031, for 0.4 points less mean accuracy.
Claude Fable scored highest, 82.6%, but at $0.333 per task, more than ten times ML.ai’s cost.
Claude Code isn’t on the Free plan.
The cheapest way in is Pro, at $17 to $20 a month.
On the same 1,344 tasks, ML.ai averaged 78.8% across six core benchmarks, against 78.4% for Claude Code with the Claude family. Claude Code with Claude Fable scored higher, 82.6%, at $0.333 per task.
The ML.ai model charges $1.50 per million output tokens against $10 to $50 for the larger Claude models, and the ML.ai agent spends about 42% less per task than Claude Code running the same model.
That setup was measured: $0.053 per task at 76.1% mean accuracy, against $0.085 for Claude Code with the Claude family. The full ML.ai agent and model saves more, at $0.031 per task.
Not yet. The CLI is coming soon. Today ML.ai runs as a VS Code and Cursor extension and as a desktop app.
in the editor you already useInstall the extension or the desktop app, sign in once, and approve every change it makes.
