BAND for Developers

Launched October 15, 2026, BAND for Developers is a desktop + CLI workspace where multiple AI coding agents work as one team: they share context, hand off tasks and unblock each other in a shared "room" instead of running as isolated sessions. It supports Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode, with SDK-level integration for custom agents built on frameworks like LangGraph and CrewAI.

Key facts: role-based teams — an architect agent writes the plan as text plus a diagram, agents claim work items and move them from To-do to Done, and they @mention each other to pass context directly. Every agent's sessions, tokens and estimated cost are tracked; sessions persist across restarts. A VS Code extension (Band for VS Code) and a web app (app.band.ai) cover non-terminal workflows; per-harness permission modes control what each agent may do.

Plans: free to start — you bring your own API keys for the underlying models. Paid Pro (higher agent counts and message throughput) and Enterprise (persistent agent memory, Human API access) tiers are announced; exact Pro/Enterprise pricing had not been published as of October 19, 2026.

Best for: developers already juggling multiple coding agents (e.g. one on backend, another on frontend) who lose time shuttling context between them, and teams moving to multi-agent workflows. macOS, Windows and Linux. Note: no verified Cursor integration at launch.

Related: Cursor · Anchor Browser

Pros

• Multiple AI coding agents share context, hand off tasks and unblock each other in one shared room instead of running as isolated sessions.
• Supports Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode, plus custom agents via SDK-level integration.
• Role-based teams let an architect agent plan while agents claim and complete work items.
• Every agent's sessions, tokens and estimated cost are tracked, and sessions persist across restarts.

Watch out for

• Paid Pro and Enterprise pricing had not been published as of October 19, 2026, so costs for those tiers are unclear.
• You bring your own API keys for the underlying models, so model costs sit on top.
• Launched October 15, 2026, it is new, and there is no verified Cursor integration at launch.

Best for

Developers already juggling multiple coding agents who lose time shuttling context between them, and teams moving to multi-agent workflows. Who should skip it: developers happy with a single coding agent.

Pricing

Free to start, with you bringing your own API keys for the underlying models. Paid Pro (higher agent counts and message throughput) and Enterprise (persistent agent memory, Human API access) tiers are announced, but exact pricing had not been published as of October 19, 2026, so check the official pricing page.

FAQs

What is BAND for Developers? A desktop and CLI workspace where multiple AI coding agents work as one team.

Which agents does it support? Claude Code, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode, plus custom agents.

How do agents coordinate? Through role-based teams, shared rooms, work items and @mentions.

Does it track costs? Yes, sessions, tokens and estimated cost per agent are tracked.