How Nominos Compares
Every column here is a good product. The question is where your code runs, whose keys pay for the tokens, and whether agent work fits your Kubernetes and GitOps practice.
| Nominos | Devin | GitHub Copilot coding agent | Claude Code (cloud) | Coder Agents | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where code runs | Your Kubernetes cluster | Their managed cloud | GitHub-managed runners | Anthropic-managed cloud | Your infrastructure (self-hosted) |
| Whose API keys | Yours (BYOK, raw provider prices) | Theirs (bundled in subscription) | Theirs (usage-based billing) | Theirs (bundled in subscription) | Yours |
| Model choice | Multi-model via the pi harness — pick a model per job | Their model mix | Their model mix | Claude models | Model-agnostic |
| Kubernetes-native | Yes — operator + CRDs | No | No | No | Runs on K8s, but not CRD-driven |
| GitOps / CRDs | AgentJob, AgentPlan, MergeQueue CRDs — declarative and auditable | No | No | No | No agent CRDs |
| Merge queue | Built in: rebase, CI gating, AI conflict resolution, auto-revert | No | No (GitHub merge queue is separate) | No | No |
| Price model | Free tier; Pro $39/user/mo + your own API bill | Teams ~$500/mo | Usage-based (premium requests) | $200/mo tier | Self-hosted; enterprise licensing |
Competitor details reflect publicly available information as of July 2026 — pricing and capabilities change; check each vendor for current terms. Nominos is in early access.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from Dependabot or Renovate?
Dependabot-style tools do one thing: version bumps from a manifest diff. Nominos runs full coding agents that can execute arbitrary tasks — refactors, CVE fixes, API migrations — across repos, with dependency ordering between steps and a merge queue to land the results safely. Dependency updates are one use case, not the product.
Why not just run agents in GitHub Actions?
You can — but you give up the reconciliation model. Actions are fire-and-forget scripts; AgentJobs are declarative resources with status, retries with backoff, timeouts, cost caps, checkpoints, and preserved logs. Your platform team can watch, alert on, and audit them exactly like any other Kubernetes workload, and your code never leaves your cluster for a shared runner.
Does my code ever leave my cluster?
The repository is cloned and modified inside a pod on your cluster. The only egress is the model API calls the agent makes to your configured provider using your key — the same traffic your developers already generate using AI tools locally. Nominos itself never receives or stores your source code.
Which models can I use?
The default claude-code harness runs Claude models (e.g. claude-sonnet-4, claude-opus-4). The new pi harness is provider-agnostic: choose a model per job or per plan step — a frontier model for hard refactors, a cheaper model for lint fixes, or a local model for air-gapped work.
What is open source?
nominos-core — the operator, CRDs (AgentJob, AgentPlan, MergeQueue), controllers, and agent runner — is open source on GitHub. The hosted dashboard, team management, and orchestration API are the commercial layer on top.
What does "early access" mean in practice?
Nominos is in active early access: the operator, dashboard, and merge queue are functional and in use by design partners, but pricing tiers are not yet self-serve and some features listed on the roadmap are still stabilizing. We are honest about that — if you need a battle-tested managed product today, the managed vendors in this table are further along; if you need agents on your own infrastructure, that is exactly what we are building.