Conductor alternatives for parallel coding agents

If you want to keep the Conductor way of working, with one agent per task in its own workspace, Talyn and Claude Code on the web are the closest cloud options. If you want agents on your own machine, T3 Code is the closest local one.

Conductor announced on November 4, 2026 that it is joining Meta. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20. Local Conductor gets new models and critical fixes until early 2027, then winds down. We wrote this page from each tool's own site on November 10, 2026. The first option is ours, so weigh that.

What to look for

Four questions separate these tools.

• Where does the agent run? On your laptop, or in a cloud sandbox that keeps working when the laptop closes.
• Who bills the model? Your own Claude or ChatGPT plan, or the tool's plan.
• Which agents does it run? One vendor's, or several.
• What happens after the pull request? Some tools stop at the pull request.

Talyn

Talyn runs Claude Code and Codex in parallel cloud sandboxes. Each task is a session with its own branch, agent, diff, terminal and run scripts. Talyn then takes the pull request through failing checks, conflicts and a merge queue.

• Runs: in a Firecracker microVM on our hardware. A sandbox sleeps after 10 idle minutes and costs nothing while it sleeps. In the desktop app, a session can also run in a git worktree on your computer.
• Bills: Free is 10 box-hours a month. Pro is $40 a month for 200 box-hours. The model runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan.
• Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux and a browser app. GitHub only.
• Carries over from Conductor: it reads conductor.json and .conductor/settings.toml as they are.
• Does not do: Cursor or OpenCode as the agent, GitLab or Bitbucket, or a public iOS app yet. Windows builds are unsigned.

Pick it if you want many sessions in the cloud on your own plan, with the pull request carried to merged. See the Conductor move guide.

Claude Code on the web

Anthropic's own cloud sessions for Claude Code. You start them from the browser at claude.ai/code, the Code tab of the Claude app, the desktop app or claude --cloud in a terminal. A session keeps running after you close your laptop.

• Runs: on infrastructure Anthropic manages, or on your organization's self-hosted environment.
• Bills: it counts toward your plan's usage limits. Anthropic says there is no separate charge for the cloud VM. It needs a Pro, Max, Ultra or Team plan, or Enterprise premium seats.
• Agent: Claude Code only.
• Git hosts: repository cloning and pull request creation need GitHub. A GitLab or Bitbucket repository can go up as a local bundle, but the session cannot push back to it.
• Also has: auto-fix for pull requests, which watches CI failures and review comments, and scheduled cloud tasks. Its docs say auto-fix cannot react to a merge conflict on its own.

Pick it if you only use Claude and want the vendor's own product. Talyn adds Codex, a merge queue and sandbox sizes. We did not compare the two on price or speed.

Codex cloud

OpenAI's cloud environments for Codex. Tasks run on OpenAI's side and continue while you do something else. Its docs page says you start them from the web, mobile, the desktop app and the Codex CLI.

• Runs: in OpenAI's cloud.
• Bills: the docs page we read does not say which plans include it.
• Agent: Codex only.
• Network: you choose all public internet, package manager domains only, or extra allowed domains.

Pick it if you live in ChatGPT and want OpenAI's own surfaces. See Talyn vs Codex cloud.

Cursor cloud agents

Cursor's cloud agents run tasks in isolated VMs and push a branch for handoff. Cursor renamed them from background agents.

• Runs: in Cursor's cloud, or on self-hosted machines you manage.
• Starts from: Cursor Desktop, the web, the iOS app, Slack, @cursor comments on GitHub and Bitbucket, Linear and an API.
• Bills: usage counts against your Cursor plan at the selected model's rate, with a spend limit. It needs Premium or higher, Teams or Enterprise.
• Git hosts: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud and Azure DevOps.

Pick it if you already work in Cursor and want to dispatch from where you are. See Talyn vs Cursor cloud agents.

T3 Code

A free, MIT-licensed control surface for coding agents. It drives the agent CLIs you have installed, on hardware you own. Its homepage lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, OpenCode and Antigravity.

• Runs: on your machine. Its homepage describes no hosted service.
• Bills: nothing. You bring your own credentials, and it says it resells no keys.
• Platforms: desktop and browser clients, with iOS and Android apps linked on its homepage.
• Does not do: run in the cloud for you. The machine must stay on.

Pick it if you want local agents, the widest choice of agents, and no vendor in the middle. It is the closest local match to Conductor's local app. See Talyn vs T3 Code.

Devin

An autonomous coding agent. You give it a task and it works in its own environment and produces a pull request. Its pricing page lists Devin Cloud and Devin Desktop.

• Bills: Free has a light quota. Pro is $20 a month, Max is $200 a month, and Teams is $80 a month plus $40 per developer seat. Paid plans have usage allowances that refresh daily and weekly. Extra usage is at API pricing.
• Style: you hand over a whole task and it comes back with a pull request.

Pick it if you want to hand over tickets and would rather buy its usage than bring your own plan. See Talyn vs Devin.

Conductor itself

If your work lives in local workspaces on a Mac, you can stay on local Conductor until it winds down in early 2027. Pro users keep Pro features for free. Its home page says it runs the first-party Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode agents. If you need Cursor or OpenCode as your agent, check each option above for it.

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