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# Cloud & autonomous agentsTicket-in, PR-out workers running outside your editor.

Cloud agents run in a vendor-hosted sandbox rather than on your machine. You hand them a task — an issue, a ticket, a prompt — and they return a pull request or a deployed change for human review.

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## Systems in this category

[Devin Cognition · cloud-agent Devin is Cognition's autonomous software engineer: cloud sandboxes for ticket-in / PR-out work, plus Devin Desktop and CLI on the same plan as Windsurf. cli/editor/api · cloud/local · Free; Pro $20/mo; Max $200; Teams $80 + $40/seat; Enterprise custom](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/devin)

[Factory Droids Factory AI · cloud-agent Factory Droids are enterprise agent fleets for code, review, docs, tests, and knowledge, run via CLI, desktop, or cloud Missions. cli/api · local/cloud · Droid Core free; Pro $20/mo; Plus $100; Max $200; Teams/Enterprise quote](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/droid)

[Jules Google · cloud-agent Jules is Google's async issue-to-PR coding agent, running tasks in the cloud from a GitHub issue handoff. api · cloud · Free tier; higher limits in Google AI Pro / Ultra](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/jules)

[Replit Agent Replit · cloud-agent Replit Agent builds full-stack apps in the browser on Replit's hosted runtime. api · cloud · Starter free; Core $20/mo; Pro $100/mo](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/replit-agent)

[Roomote Roo Code Inc. · cloud-agent Roomote is the Roo Code team's single-tenant cloud coding agent: your own hosted or self-hosted instance that runs tasks against your repos. api · cloud/local · Self-host free ≤10 users; Cloud from $49/mo](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/roomote)

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## Who it's for

Teams that want to parallelize well-specified work, run long tasks without tying up a laptop, or delegate maintenance and migration work with review gates.

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## Tradeoffs

Highest autonomy, highest price band, and the most trust required: code, credentials, and execution all live on the vendor's infrastructure.

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## Frequently asked

### What is a cloud agent?

Cloud agents run in a vendor-hosted sandbox rather than on your machine. You hand them a task — an issue, a ticket, a prompt — and they return a pull request or a deployed change for human review.

### Who should use a cloud agent?

Teams that want to parallelize well-specified work, run long tasks without tying up a laptop, or delegate maintenance and migration work with review gates.

### What are the tradeoffs of cloud agents?

Highest autonomy, highest price band, and the most trust required: code, credentials, and execution all live on the vendor's infrastructure.

### Which cloud agents are in the catalog?

5 as of 2026-09-25: Devin (Cognition), Factory Droids (Factory AI), Jules (Google), Replit Agent (Replit), Roomote (Roo Code Inc.).

### What is an autonomous cloud coding agent?

An agent that runs in a hosted sandbox, takes a task in, and produces a pull request or change out, with a human reviewing the result. Devin is the reference example in the catalog.

### How much do cloud coding agents cost?

Pricing in the seed ranges from beta/free (Jules, at the time of the seed) to enterprise contracts (Factory) and per-seat plans often cited at $500+/month (Devin). All values are approximate — verify on the vendor's pricing page.

### Cloud agent vs CLI agent — which should I use?

Use a CLI agent when you want the agent next to you in a local checkout. Use a cloud agent when you want to delegate whole tasks and review the PR later.

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Examples: Devin · Factory Droids · Jules · Replit Agent. Entries are editorial records from seed 2026-09-25, not endorsements.

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