Russia Already Has 18 AI Code Agents, but 'Russian' Means Three Different Things

On September 4, 2026, Cursor disabled agents and autocomplete for Russian users and began forcibly canceling paid subscriptions with refunds. Engineers who were working with the agent in the morning found themselves with an empty editor by noon, and corporate teams faced three barriers with foreign subscriptions: security service bans on sending code abroad, unstable gray payments, and the absence of documentation for Law 54-FZ compliance.

Five weeks later, Evgeny Shilov, author of the AI tools guide and RuBench benchmark, published a complete census of Russian AI code agents. It included 18 working products (12 of them have a free tier or trial): 10 agents for those who code in IDE and terminal, and 8 builders and autonomous cloud agents.

10 Agents for Developers (IDE, Terminal, and Desktop)

The first group includes tools that work inside a code editor, console, or standalone IDE:

• GigaCode (SberTech) — a plugin for VS Code and JetBrains plus an agent on GitVerse based on GigaChat models (there's a separate code model with 13 billion parameters and the flagship GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning). Basic tier is free (0 ₽), GigaCode CLI and GigaCode Desktop versions are available only for business starting from 1,699 ₽ per user, and corporate clients at Cloud.ru can connect open models GLM, DeepSeek, and Qwen to the plugin. The most widespread product on the market: 45,000 installations and 25,000 MAU.
• SourceCraft (Yandex) — a development platform in the Russian Federation's secure environment with an agent in CLI and cloud 'AI colleagues' that can be assigned to a task as team members starting September 24, 2026 (they fix code, run tests, and submit PRs for review). There's a free plan (0 ₽, 500 neurocredits), paid tiers starting from 1,190 ₽/month. In RuBench's August round, SourceCraft CLI scored 66.7 points — on par with Codex on GPT-5.5.
• Kodik (ArchiTech AI) — a standalone desktop AI-IDE based on VS Code (from 1,599 ₽/month, no free tier). It runs on foreign models but includes a proprietary module KodikShield: a local model finds keys and passwords in the code and replaces them with stubs before sending requests to external LLMs.
• Koda (Koda) — a plugin for the editor and terminal Koda CLI from the team of former GigaCode creators (0 ₽ basic, paid from 1,590 ₽/month). In September 2026, it switched to open models GLM 5.3 and Qwen 3.8 Flash on its own servers, while foreign models are provided by subscription. In RuBench, Koda CLI scored 51.5 points.
• Kodify (MWS AI / MTS) — a corporate on-premise assistant based on fine-tuned Qwen2.5-Coder (price upon request, open version Kodify Nano available for free).
• Veai (IITEH) — an agent for JetBrains with per-minute billing in rubles (0 ₽ to start, paid packages from 2,800 ₽, one minute of agent work from 14 ₽). Minutes can be spent in Claude Code as well; foreign models run under the hood.
• 1C:Naparnike (1C) — the only specialized AI assistant within 1C:EDT environment, understanding the entire configuration and the built-in Russian 1C language (0 ₽ until December 1, 2026 / February 1, 2027). In the Infostart test on 35 executable tasks, 1C solved 31 tasks (at the level of the best world models with 32–34 and noticeably higher than GigaChat 3.5 Ultra with 19).
• T-Code (T-Bank) — an internal AI pipeline of 11 tools based on the open model Qwen3-Coder (480B parameters), deployed within the bank's secure environment. 80% of T-Bank engineers work on it; external companies can purchase it through early access by request.
• T1 AI Copilot (T1 Holding) — a corporate on-premise assistant with fine-tuning on the customer's codebase (by request).
• Safeliner (T-Bank) — a specialized security agent from T-Bank's pipeline (by request): filters SAST scanner triggers, dampens up to 85% false positives, and suggests ready-made patches.

Three more products are on the verge of release and are not included in the main table: Astra AI [Code] (terminal and ACP protocol in OpenIDE Pro 2026.2, public release promised in Q4 2026), CLI version of Kodik, and GigaCode CLI closed for individuals.

8 Builders, Cloud, and Browser Agents

The second group is designed for building applications from text prompts and autonomous task execution without manual coding:

• Vibecraft (Yandex) — a vibecode builder on top of SourceCraft (0 ₽ in preview; publishing one website costs 530 neurocredits with 500 free per month, code remains in the user's repository).
• Pokhali! (Pokhali!) — a website and application builder with Yuri agent based on Claude models (0 ₽ to start, paid from 999 ₽/month; important limitation — backend is tied to the platform, and after 60 days without payment the database is deleted).
• Lork — a landing page and web application generator from descriptions, filling the niche of Lovable and Bolt unavailable from Russia (0 ₽ to start, paid from 990 ₽/month, billing in command tokens).
• Bitrix24 Vibecode (Bitrix24) — a business application builder directly on top of Bitrix24 corporate portal data (0 ₽ to start, then 1 vibe = 1 ₽ + VAT; code under the hood is generated by Claude Code and Codex).
• Amvera Polide (Amvera) — cloud VS Code in a browser with a built-in agent or your own API key and one-click deployment to Amvera cloud (0 ₽ to start, paid from 750 ₽/month; container goes to sleep after ~2 hours of idle time).
• RUFP — a desktop agent for non-developers (0 ₽ trial, paid from 1,000 ₽/month): builds a plan, coordinates steps, and edits project files based on foreign LLMs.
• GigaAgent (Sber) — an autonomous general-purpose agent in Sber's cloud with long-term memory between sessions and connection to external tools (grant of 4,000 ₽ for 60 days is provided).
• Alice Agent (Yandex) — a browser agent within Yandex Browser on proprietary Alice AI models (0 ₽): navigates websites on its own, fills out forms, and completes multi-step tasks.

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Architectures Under the 'Russian' Label and a Question for InfoSec

For a Chief Information Security Officer, the key conclusion of this review is that the word 'Russian' in the storefront means one of three completely different code processing schemes:

1. Proprietary models in Russia (`GigaCode`, `Kodify Nano`, `Alice Agent`, `1C:Naparnike`) — complete independence from foreign sanctions, but quality ceiling is limited by the pace of one laboratory. 2. Open weights on own servers in Russia (`T-Code` on Qwen3-Coder 480B, `SourceCraft` via Yandex AI Studio, `Koda` on GLM 5.3 and Qwen 3.8 Flash) — a balance of world-class quality and keeping code within the Russian secure environment. 3. Foreign models in a ruble wrapper (`Kodik`, `Veai`, `RUFP`, `Pokhali!`, `Bitrix24 Vibecode`) — Russian contract and payment in rubles, but the code itself goes to Claude, GPT, or Gemini API during requests (only Kodik pre-removes secrets via KodikShield).

Meanwhile, true on-premise (installation on the customer's own servers) is provided by only four solutions: Kodify, T1 AI Copilot, T-Code, and GigaCode on the corporate tier. The phrase 'servers in Russia' for other products means the vendor's own cloud in Russian jurisdiction. Additionally, vendors regularly change models under the hood without public announcement (as happened in August–September with SourceCraft, Koda, and 1C:Naparnike), so any benchmarks must be re-verified on your team's live code before purchase.