YC-backed Reason claims frontier coding performance at up to 20x lower cost
Scobleizer · x · 2026-11-13
Reason Machines (YC F26) launched Reason, an agent harness claiming to beat top harnesses like Codex and Devin on Terminal-Bench and DeepSWE (59.1% with GPT-6 Astra) while cutting per-task cost to a fraction of the frontier baseline — up to 20x cheaper. It unifies coding agents (Reason, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in one app and offers an API for launching sessions from scripts or CI. Vendor-reported benchmarks, unverified; distribution is a classic comment-for-early-access push.
More from coding & agent
- Peter Yang's 500-hour guide: when to use Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5 in Claude Code — petergyang · 2026-11-14
- Peter Yang shares tutorial on when to use Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5 across 5 real workflows — petergyang · 2026-11-14
- Agent Swarms Get Stuck in Local Minima; Two Design Fixes — JensHonack · 2026-11-14
- Ben Lorica's 8 practical lessons for making agent memory actually useful — bigdata · 2026-11-14
- Open-source tool auto-orchestrates Pi and Claude agents across platforms, no copy-paste needed — Pale_Bus · 2026-11-14
- Nous Research ships Hermes Agent mobile beta build 44 with streamlined navigation and faster chat — NousResearch · 2026-11-14