Databricks Evaluates Coding Agent Cost and Performance
NandaVegg · reddit · 2026-07-10
This post recaps a Databricks benchmark blog comparing various coding agents on large-scale codebases.
Key conclusions include:
- pi-coding-agent can be roughly 2x cheaper than CC/Codex in certain settings, while achieving a higher pass rate
- GLM 5.2 is considered close to Opus 4.8 high in the results, even outperforming GPT 5.5 high / xhigh
- This is a use-case-specific benchmark, and the author cautions that results should be interpreted within specific workflows
- A major caveat: the CC solution comes with tools like Playwright, giving it an edge in visual/gaming tasks, whereas GLM natively lacks image input support
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